{"id":4440,"date":"2026-06-30T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:36:07","slug":"supreme-court-agrees-to-review-ban-on-ar-style-semi-automatic-rifles-in-major-second-amendment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4440","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court agrees to review ban on AR-style semi-automatic rifles in major Second Amendment case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether cities and states may ban people from owning AR-15 rifles and similar semi-automatic weapons, taking up a major Second Amendment dispute that it had previously declined to address.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4438\">Longtime Clinton aide walks back claim former president visited Epstein island, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            One of the appeals involving certain semi-automatic rifles came from two Illinois residents who want to purchase AR-15 style rifles but are blocked from doing so by an ordinance in Cook County that makes it unlawful to sell or possess any \u201cassault weapon or large capacity magazine,\u201d specifically listing dozens of models that were off limits.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ten states have similar bans in place, according to the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another case came from several Connecticut residents who wish to purchase weapons covered under that state\u2019s ban.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to take up the issue but there have been signs in recent years that the court was prepared to reconsider that approach.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Last year, when the justices declined to hear arguments in a case involving Maryland\u2019s ban on similar weapons, conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a short opinion asserting that \u201cthis court should and presumably will address the AR\u201315 issue soon.\u201d In that opinion, he noted that most states do not ban the guns and described those that do as \u201csomething of an outlier.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Gun rights groups are pointing to a unanimous decision in a separate matter last year written by liberal Justice Elena Kagan, who described the AR-15 as \u201cthe most popular rifle in the country\u201d and \u201cwidely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers.\u201d The court\u2019s precedents have held that weapons that are in \u201ccommon use\u201d for lawful purposes are protected by the Second Amendment, as opposed to those that are \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cunusual.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Appeals over AR-15 rifles are among several Second Amendment matters that have reached the court following its blockbuster 2022 decision\u202fin New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association v. Bruen, which struck down a strict requirement in New York that residents show cause to obtain a carry permit. As part of that decision, a 6-3 conservative majority said that in order to survive Second Amendment challenges, modern-day gun regulations needed to have some grounding in the \u201cnation\u2019s historical tradition of firearm regulation.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4436\">Library of Congress official Trump tried to fire can keep her job for now, Supreme Court says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The gun rights groups challenging Cook County\u2019s ordinance framed the AR-15 as both common and historic.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cFrom the founding of this country, the rifle has been a paradigmatic American arm, facilitating the struggle for independence from the British and serving as \u2018the companion\u2019 and \u2018tutelary protector\u2019 of the westward pioneers,\u201d the groups told the Supreme Court in their appeal. \u201cThe AR-15 platform rifle is the modern descendant of the rifles that were borne by the militiamen of the Revolution and the pioneers who struck out West in search of a better life.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cook County, by contrast, opened its brief opposing the appeal with a list of mass shootings that involved what it described as \u201cassault weapons,\u201d and the number of people killed in those incidents. \u201c2022 Highland Park parade, 7 dead; 2022 Buffalo supermarket, 10 dead,\u201d it read. The list continued for more than three pages.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cTheir inherent lethality makes them an alluring choice for mass murder, compared to less lethal weapons like knives or handguns,\u201d the Cook County officials wrote. \u201cAt war, the ability to fire continuously without reloading translates to combat effectiveness.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cutberto Viramontes and Christopher Khaya, both Cook County residents, filed the lawsuit in 2021, alleging that the ordinance violated the Second Amendment. Viramontes wants to purchase an AR-15-style weapon for self-defense, according to court records. Khaya testified that he would be most likely to use one \u201cat the range.\u201d The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation were also part of the suit.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A federal district court sided with the county and the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4434\">With Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship, here\u2019s what to know about immigration to the US, in charts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether cities and states may ban people from owning AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, taking up a major Second Amendment dispute that it had previously declined to address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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