[Paywall Source](https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/02/23/what-alitos-rumored-retirement-would-mean-for-second-amendment-n1231646) > In other words, Alito is doing his best to make sure that his replacement won't upset the current balance of power on the Court. > Yeah, they don't always vote the way we might like, but there's only so much one man can do, and so it's likely he'll be replaced by someone at least close to as pro-gun as Alito has been. > Look, the last thing we need is another Ruth Bader Ginsburg situation, where a pro-gun justice dies while on the bench with an anti-gun president in the White House. While there's still a mostly pro-gun majority remaining, it might not be enough to actually make the Court take the cases in the first place, which is kind of an important step. > Alito stepping down while there's still plenty of time to get not just a new nominee named, but confirmed, by the Trump administration, and the Second Amendment protected for the foreseeable future. > Yeah, we lose a pro-gun voice, and what we get might not be as pro-gun, unfortunately, but it's better than another justice who doesn't even seem to understand the law, the cases before them, or anything like that other than a profound desire to support every authoritarian action the left wants to embrace.