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Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Cases: The Fight Begins
The Court just agreed to answer the question we have all been asking since Heller: are the most common rifles in America protected by the Second Amendment? On June 30, the justices granted review in two cases challenging AR-15 platform bans, consolidated them into a single argument, and did it on the last order of the term. That is not a shrug. The Court does not take up a question like this to leave it alone. This is the moment a lot of us assumed would eventually come and quietly worried never would. It came. Now comes the hard part.
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S14E1: Freedom Bought, Freedom Maintained: 700 Years of Receipts
With the AR-15 cases headed to the Court, Jacob and I decided to start a new season by going all the way back. We trace the right to keep and bear arms from English law in the 1300s forward: the Statute of Northampton, the Stuart era, the English Bill of Rights, and how all of it shaped the thinking behind the Second Amendment. From there it is the colonial period, the Revolution, and the ugly post-Civil War chapters, the restrictions on enslaved Black people, the Black Codes, the 14th Amendment, and the Dred Scott, Cruikshank, and Miller decisions. We finish with the NFA, the Gun Control Act, FOPA, Heller, McDonald, Bruen, Rahimi, and the AR-15 and magazine cases sitting in front of us right now. Seven hundred years of receipts, and every one of them explains where we are today. |
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Colorado Assault Weapons Lawsuit Filed as SCOTUS Steps In
Colorado is suddenly getting hit from two directions at once. On the very same day the Supreme Court agreed to take up the core question, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Colorado State Shooting Association filed Elliott v. Denver, challenging Denver's ban on so-called "assault weapons" along with Denver's and Colorado's limits on magazines over 15 rounds. The timing was not an accident. Here is who is behind it, what they are actually asking for, and how it fits with what is now headed to Washington.
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P.S. If you only read one thing this week, make it the Supreme Court piece. Whatever comes out of this one will shape what you and I are allowed to own for the rest of our lives, and it is worth understanding now rather than after the fact.
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