The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involves whether possessing AR-15's is protected by the Second Amendment, but the court’s conservatives are signaling they soon will.

Only three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — voted to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on possessing AR-15s, barely falling short of the four votes required to take up a case.

But Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent a strong signal that he will provide that crucial fourth vote in a future case once the issue percolates more in the lower courts.

“In my view, this Court should and presumably will address the AR–15 issue soon, in the next Term or two,” Kavanaugh wrote in a three-page written statement.

Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second appointee to the court, called Maryland’

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