It does potentially have an impact on the other states. An additional quote from the article:
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Strict Scrutiny'
Levy and his colleagues want the court to adopt a ``strict scrutiny'' test allowing gun restrictions only when they would meet a ``compelling'' interest. Levy's group says that approach would leave governments free to prevent convicted felons and mentally ill people from owning guns.
Still, that test would mark a major change, according to Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. None of the 42 states that protect gun rights through their own constitutions uses such a demanding test, he said.
Strict scrutiny would ``disrupt all the state gun control laws,'' said Winkler, who filed a brief backing Washington. ``What we might see is a tidal wave of people coming into court challenging their convictions for various gun crimes.''
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