A new national firearms survey estimating that approximately 26 million Americans currently own AR-15-type or similarly styled semi-automatic rifles has already become evidence in the Supreme Court case that could decide whether state and local governments may continue banning America’s most popular rifle.
The survey is not sitting on a shelf waiting for academics to argue over it. Attorneys challenging the Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut rifle bans cited the findings repeatedly in their newly filed brief to the Supreme Court. The brief was filed on behalf of individual gun owners, the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Second Amendment Foundation, and the Connecticut Citizens Defense League.
The consolidated cases, Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, ask one direct question: “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.”
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