Connecticut has had a ban on so-called “assault weapons” since approach again in 1993. However after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom handed down the Bruen ruling in 2022, pro-gun advocates started working to defeat the ban by submitting a lawsuit difficult the state legislation on Second Modification grounds.
Now, three years after that lawsuit was filed, the Second Modification Basis (SAF), together with companions the Connecticut Residents Protection League and three non-public residents, have petitioned the Supreme Courtroom to listen to the case Grant v. Rovella.
After a troubling and misguided preliminary injunction resolution from the 2nd Circuit Courtroom of Appeals in August, SAF is now presenting the case to the Supreme Courtroom for its consideration. That courtroom upheld an earlier district courtroom ruling that the arms in query are protected by the Second Modification, however that the ban suits inside the nationwide custom of gun possession.
The SAF petition filed with the Supreme Courtroom on November 10 defined the breadth of the Connecticut legislation and its implications on the Second Modification rights of Connecticut gun homeowners.
“Connecticut’s ban on ‘assault weapons’ extends to many atypical and customary semiautomatic firearms—together with the AR-15 rifle,” the transient said. “These lined firearms are mechanically and functionally equivalent to each different semiautomatic firearm in the best way that they fireplace.”
The transient additionally argued that lawsuits difficult numerous AWBs have been kicked round within the decrease courts, together with appeals courts, lengthy sufficient.
“There may be little to be gained from further percolation of this difficulty within the decrease courts,” the petition stated. “As famous, decrease courtroom majorities have set forth a number of completely different rationales for upholding bans on AR-15s and related rifles. And dissenting judges have supplied lots of of pages explaining why these bans violate the Second Modification and this Courtroom’s precedents.”
In the end, the petition requested the Supreme Courtroom justices to listen to the case and determine the difficulty as soon as and for all.
“If something, further percolation is more likely to inject extra confusion into Second Modification doctrine, because the panel instructed within the resolution under,” the petition concluded. “The Courtroom ought to grant the petition for certiorari.”
Alan M. Gottlieb, SAF founder and government vice chairman, stated the case is an important one, and never only for Connecticut gun homeowners.
“This case has far-reaching implications for all the nation,” Gottlieb stated in a information launch asserting the submitting. “Residents of Connecticut and the opposite 10 states which have related legal guidelines face felony prosecution for proudly owning any variety of firearms which might be in frequent use across the nation. The Structure protects all arms in frequent use by residents for lawful functions, even those who activist lawmakers have lumped into artificially conjured definitions primarily based on options that they don’t even perceive.”
One other AWB case, an SAF problem to the Prepare dinner County, Illinois, ban on frequent semi-automatic firearms, can be earlier than SCOTUS and can start in December.
