View Attributions and the Full Transcript In the Majority Supreme Court Opinion on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v.Bruen, Justice Thomas wrote “. . . when it comes to interpreting the Constitution, not all historyis created equal. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood tohave when the people adopted them.” Justice Breyer, in his Dissenting Opinion, recalled points he raised earlier in the Heller casewherein he proposed weighing “the interests protected by the Second Amendment on one sideand the governmental public-safety concerns on the other.”
