Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Wolford v. Lopez: “Such a narrow search results in a ‘law trapped in amber.’” This makes the phrasing in Rahimi infelicitous: “These [originalist] precedents were not meant to suggest a law trapped in amber.” The law and amberGiven the unique features of the Second Amendment that gave rise to an originalist court using the “trapped in amber” metaphor, one might expect it to remain trapped in Second Amendment litigation. The court’s two Second Amendment decisions this past term resoundingly reaffirm that Second Amendment law remains “trapped” where the people fixed it. In her Slaughter dissent, Sotomayor asked, “When, exactly is our law ‘trapped in amber,’ and when is it not?”