Wrenn v. District of Columbia

Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.

GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:

Constitutional challenges to gun laws create peculiar puzzles for courts. In other areas, after all, a law’s validity might turn on the value of its goals and the efficiency of its means. But gun laws almost always aim at the most compelling goal—saving lives—while evidence of their effects is almost always deeply contested. On top of that, the Supreme Court has offered little guidance. Its “first in-depth examination of the Second Amendment” is younger than the first iPhone. District of Columbia v. Heller (Heller I),…