Thanks. I’ve been wondering for a while if Heller and McDonald would ever show up in MA courts, but I admit I’m surprised it was a stun gun case instead of a denied LTC case.
He also claimed to be a certain type of originalist when it came to the Constitution, referring to the “original meaning” of a text being how a rational person would have interpreted the text when it was written. He distinguished this from trying to figure out what the writers meant when they wrote it.
The link includes a quotation by Scalia himself who said he was an originalist–albeit secondary to his textualism.