SUPREME COURT: Brown v. EMA casts doubt on the “weapons effect” justification for gun control. “In examining the legislative history of anti-gun laws, courts will not have to look far to find the ‘weapons effect’ as a crucial motive for many of the laws which aim to reduce gun ownership or accessibility by ordinary citizens (rather than merely keeping guns away from actually dangerous people). Legislative animus against the exercise of constitutional rights can be, in itself, an important reason to find a law unconstitutional. When that animus is based on the same type of social science which the Supreme Court has recently dismissed as unrelated to any serious state interest, then courts have especially good reason to recognize the unconstitutionality of the legislation.”