JPFO SUBMITS AMICUS BRIEF TO SUPREME
COURT IN ‘ASSAULT WEAPONS’ BAN CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – Declaring that history does not provide any authority for modern semiautomatic rifles to be banned, JPFO has submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the plaintiffs in two consolidated cases challenging bans in Cook County, Illinois and the state of Connecticut.

The cases are Viramontes v. Cook County (Illinois) and Grant v. Higgins (Connecticut). They are brought by the Second Amendment Foundation, and several of its partners.

The 31-page brief is joined by Dr. Angus Kirk McClellan, an independent scholar of Anglo-American legal history, and by Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Studies estimate that firearms labeled “assault weapons” account for well under one percent of violent crimes, the brief says, while such firearms are “commonly possessed safeguards used for lawful purposes—not instruments outside lawful use and not identified with violent criminality.”

“AR-15s and other modern sporting rifles are undisputably in common use for all manner of lawful purposes by the American people and, therefore, cannot be banned,” said JPFO Projects Director, James Jones. “Anti-liberty groups who want to abolish the Second Amendment and the right it protects have tried for years to ban one class of firearm after another providing nothing but false rhetoric and misguided emotion as evidence to justify the unjust prohibitions. We’re confident the Supreme Court will see through their schemes and will rely on the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment.”

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