After nearly a decade and numerous denials, the U.S. Supreme Court will jump back into Second Amendment gun regulations. Is Justice Brett Kavanaugh the reason?

“It’s hard not to think that Kavanaugh’s replacement of Justice [Anthony] Kennedy was key here,” said Second Amendment scholar Adam Winkler of UCLA Law School. “The court has turned aside one gun case after another for nearly a decade, and almost immediately [after Kavanaugh is on the court] they take a Second Amendment case. It’s hard not to draw that inference.”