Published July 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET · Updated July 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM ET
Texas gun-control push by Talarico draws fresh scrutiny
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A gun-control push by Texas lawmaker Talarico is drawing renewed scrutiny. The effort has attracted fresh attention from observers.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Because McDonald v. City of Chicago made the Second Amendment applicable to the states, any Texas gun-control law faces Second Amendment review. Under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Texas must show its proposed restrictions are consistent with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. A policy preference for reducing gun violence is not enough; the burden is historical analogy.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, Illinois 561 U.S. 742 (2010)
Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Alito
The Second Amendment right recognized in Heller is fully applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. A four-Justice plurality incorporated the right via the Due Process Clause as fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in its history and tradition; Justice Thomas supplied the fifth vote via the Privileges or Immunities Clause. The Seventh Circuit's judgment upholding Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans was reversed and remanded.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas
New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.
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