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Supreme Court’s intervening decision in United States v. Rahimi . But for appellate practitioners and in-house counsel, the highlight wasn't the two-page summary opinion—or even Justice James Sullivan's lengthy concurrence examining the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment and the Texas Constitution’s Arms Clause.

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