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Cite as:  602 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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GORSUCH, J., concurring 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 22–915 
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UNITED STATES, PETITIONER v. ZACKEY RAHIMI 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 
APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 

[June 21, 2024] 

JUSTICE GORSUCH, concurring. 
Mr.  Rahimi  pursues  the  “most  difficult  challenge  to
mount  successfully”:  a  facial  challenge.  United  States  v. 
Salerno,  481  U. S.  739,  745  (1987).    He  contends  that  18 
U. S. C. §922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment “in all
its applications.”  Bucklew v. Precythe, 587 U. S. 119, 138 
(2019).  To prevail, he must show “no set of circumstances” 
exists  in  which  that  law  can  be  applied  without  violating 
the Second Amendment.  Salerno, 481 U. S., at 745.  I agree
with  the  Court  that  he  has  failed  to  make  that  showing. 
Ante, at 8. 

That  is  not  because  the  Constitution  has  little  to  say
about  the  matter.  The  Second  Amendment  protects  the 
“right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”  “ ‘[T]ext and 
history’ ” dictate the contours of that right.  Ante, at 6 (quot-
ing New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 
U. S. 1, 22 (2022)).  As this Court has recognized, too, the
Amendment’s  text  “ ‘guarantee[s]  the  individual  right  to
possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.’ ”  Id., 
at 32 (quoting District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 
592  (2008)).  And  where  that  “text  covers  an  individual’s 
conduct,” a law regulating that conduct may be upheld only 
if it is “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of 
firearms regulation.”  597 U. S., at 17; see ante, at 6. 

In  this  case,  no  one  questions  that  the  law  Mr.  Rahimi
challenges addresses individual conduct covered by the text