Kamala Harris’s call to pack the Supreme Court with 13 justices is the latest chapter in a long-running campaign to neutralize the one institution that has repeatedly blocked the left’s most ambitious gun-control schemes. For decades, the Court has served as the last line of defense for the Second Amendment, striking down Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban, Illinois’s carry restrictions, and New York’s discretionary “may-issue” permitting regime. Adding four new seats would instantly tilt the balance toward justices who view the right to keep and bear arms as a historical curiosity rather than a fundamental liberty, giving future administrations a rubber-stamp for magazine bans, registration schemes, and red-flag laws that bypass due process.

The DSA wing of the Democratic Party has made no secret of its endgame: treat the Constitution as an obstacle to be circumvented rather than a charter to be upheld. Court-packing is merely the procedural vehicle for that agenda. Once the Court is ideologically aligned, the same coalition pushing “assault-weapon” bans and universal background checks will have a green light to criminalize the private transfer of firearms, impose national gun registries, and even revisit the individual-rights holding of Heller itself. The 2A community should recognize this proposal for what it is—not a good-faith reform, but a structural power grab designed to render electoral defeats irrelevant and to place the future of the right to arms in the hands of whichever party controls the White House and Senate at any given moment.