By Anthony Morelli
Game-changing news just broke about “assault weapon” bans.
They could be over after this Supreme Court news.
And the gun control lobby has been backed into a corner.
The spirit of the Second Amendment is that the people should have access to the same firearms that the government does.
It exists to create a balance of power and prevent the government from using guns to bully and terrorize the people into submission, like they do in other countries.
By that standard, any type of gun that is used by the government for domestic purposes in any capacity should be readily available to the American people to purchase and own.
That includes the guns that gun-grabbers like to refer to as “assault weapons” – a made-up term that has no actual meaning.
The government most certainly uses AR-15s for domestic law enforcement in various circumstances, and that means by the spirit of the Second Amendment, the American people should be allowed to own these firearms as well.
They are still banned in many states, but the National Association for Gun Rights is attempting to change that by appealing these bans to the Supreme Court, and the gun control lobby is scared.
According to The Hill, “The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review an Illinois assault weapons ban that a federal appeals court upheld last year.
“The 7th Circuit found in November that the assault weapons ban constitutes a reasonable limit on the Second Amendment, which the NAGR challenges.”
Here’s what Hannah Hill, the executive director of the National Foundation for Gun Rights, the legal arm of the organization, had to say: “As we’ve said from the beginning, this is a very simple case. Under the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court’s Heller and Bruen precedents, you can’t ban so-called ‘assault weapons.’”
“The 7th Circuit had to actually rule that AR-15s aren’t guns at all in order to uphold the gun ban. That’s how open and shut our case is, and we look forward to the Supreme Court striking down these unconstitutional gun bans once and for all.”
The article continues, “The court similarly denied emergency requests for suits challenging New York gun laws last year, but conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said gun rights advocates ‘should not be deterred’ and continue with attempts to strike down state laws.”
If the courts are having to write ridiculous rulings claiming that AR-15s “aren’t guns” in order to keep these bans in effect, that shows how weak the argument is that the bans are constitutional.
NAGR clearly has the upper hand here, and with a handful of Supreme Court justices on the record essentially asking them to bring this challenge forward, there is a real chance the bans get struck down.
That would be a tremendous victory for gun owners in anti-gun states who would like to purchase AR-15s.
If this challenge by NAGR is successful, and the Supreme Court strikes down “assault weapon” bans, it would be a landmark moment for the pro-gun movement in America.