The Originalism of Tradition

Judge Newsom has a good point here that this is a originalism workaround. To the extent that's what tradition means obviously that's wildly problematic as he points out. But for me I guess when I first thought about the question I was like, okay, the only way for me to understand what tradition means is to take out text and history but just said, we looked at the tradition of gun regulations in the United States. So it feels like tradition, it's hard to think of a concept of tradition that isn't a subset of history. And so in some ways, isn't it ultimately kind of rhetorical flourish?