Major Gun Cases in 2026 Pose Questions for Courts Nationwide

Does the Constitution protect your right to bring a gun to a museum? Can a state ban AR-15s? Should you have to wait three days before taking a new firearm home? What about seven?

Federal appeals courts in 2026 will be considering those questions and more, navigating a landscape that’s still coming into focus after the US Supreme Court’s game-changing 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

That ruling found that in order to pass Second Amendment muster, a law must be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Three years ...