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On the heels of a big Second Amendment victory for gun owners in Hawaii, the U.S. Supreme Court that it will hear two cases challenging state and local \u201cassault weapons\u201d bans later this year.<\/p>\n

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The cases dispute laws in Illinois and Connecticut, questioning the constitutionality of banning \u201cAR-15 platform and similar semi-automatic rifles\u201d under the Second and 14th Amendments. and will be heard together in the Supreme Court\u2019s October 2026 term.<\/p>\n

Democrats like Kamala Harris have recently called for a federal ban on assault weapons, which she calls \u201cweapons of war\u201d that \u201chave no place on the streets of civil society.\u201d One of the major problems with that proposition is that Americans have no idea what Democrats mean by \u201cassault weapons.\u201d Even former President Biden\u2019s ATF Director Steve Dettelbach would not offer a definition to Congress, leading Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, to point out that \u201c[i]f we laid a weapon on the table, you could pretty much say, \u2018that falls in the category of assault weapon.’\u201d<\/p>\n

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court may finally help outline a legal definition of assault weapons and judge on the constitutionality of broad firearm bans. <\/p>\n

Grant v. Higgins <\/em>challenges Connecticut\u2019s state-level ban on the sale, transfer, or possession of \u201cassault weapons,\u201d which they define as \u201c[a]ny selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semi-automatic or burst fire at the option of the user.\u201d Grant is not challenging the ban on automatic or burst-fire weapons, but the ban on all semi-automatic weapons that meet the state\u2019s criteria. Among the banned firearms are many commonly used rifles, like the AR-15, along with semi-automatic pistols and shotguns. <\/p>\n

Viramontes v. Cook County <\/em>challenges a similarly broad ban on assault weapons in Cook County, Illinois. The law bans over 100 different rifles by name, including the \u201cmost popular long gun in the country,\u201d the AR-15 platform rifle, and any other semi-automatic rifle that can fit a magazine capacity over ten rounds. <\/p>\n

Both laws were upheld in the lower courts, leading the plaintiffs to bring their cases to the Supreme Court as a vital Second Amendment issue. <\/p>\n

In their appeal, the plaintiffs argue that \u201cthe very term \u2018assault weapon\u2019 is a political slogan masquerading as a meaningful designation, designed to exploit \u2018the public\u2019s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic\u2019 firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Because of this vagueness, they argue, \u201c\u2019assault weapons\u2019 laws restrict many perfectly ordinary and common firearms,\u201d which are \u201cfunctionally identical to every other semi-automatic firearm in the way they fire,\u201d and are \u201cexceedingly common and fully protected by the Second Amendment.\u201d They further argue that the 14th Amendment incorporation doctrine means that the individual states must recognize their citizens\u2019 Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

According to the appeal, Supreme Court precedent holds that a firearm cannot be banned if it is \u201cin common use for lawful purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the most popular rifle in the country is not in common use, it is hard to see what that phrase could possibly mean,\u201d the plaintiffs argue. <\/p>\n

According to a Washington Post\/Ipsos survey, the most-common lawful use of these so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d is for self-defense, and Americans reportedly own over 32 million AR-15 platform firearms. There are thousands of defensive gun uses in the United States every day, along with heavy recreational and hunting use.<\/p>\n

The state of Connecticut argued in their response that the United States has a \u201clongstanding tradition of restricting novel weapons that are particularly suited for criminal violence,\u201d and that there is \u201c\u201cno direct historical precedent for the contemporary, growing societal concern over and fear of mass shootings resulting in ten or more fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

As previously reported by The Federalist, this Supreme Court rejected cases challenging similar laws in Maryland and Rhode Island last year, with only three justices signaling a willingness to hear the cases (Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch). The \u201crule of four\u201d means that there must be at least four justices who agree to hear a case to bring it before the whole court, but now the justices have finally agreed to hear and decide on an assault weapons ban case.<\/p>\n

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