WELL: Surprising support for the right to bear arms:

As the Supreme Court considers New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, many commentators are wondering if the Court will rule on the basis of text, history, and tradition. A deeply researched amicus brief from Everytown for Gun Safety cites a wealth of history. Yet some of those cites when read in context, such as the full sentence, undercut the brief’s thesis that peaceable carry of arms was generally prohibited in England and America.

This post is co-authored by George A. Mocsary. Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law and Adjunct Scholar at the Firearms Policy Coalition. We are two of the five co-authors of the just-published third edition of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy (Aspen).

We will present statements from the Everytown Brief, indented. Then we provide additional context.

Read the whole thing. Even for Everytown, there’s a lot of dishonesty here.