A coalition led by the National Rifle Association this week sued to stop the Biden administration's bid to regulate AR-style 'pistols,' an effort that could prompt the Supreme Court to finally define what is allowed under the 231-year-old Second Amendment.
A coalition led by the National Rifle Association this week sued to stop the Biden administration's bid to regulate AR-style"pistols," an effort that could prompt the Supreme Court to finally define what is allowed under the 231-year-old Second Amendment.
In an hourlong interview with Secrets in Harrisburg, Pa., where the NRA has been hosting the Great American Outdoors Show, which concludes Sunday, Cotton said that state gun control laws have been falling fast as federal courts implement two key recent Supreme Court rulings granting Americans the right to have and carry guns without many restrictions.
That's where the AR pistol suit comes in. Until this month, the ATF said the guns equipped with arm braces to steady the firearms, especially for the disabled, were OK to buy with just a background check. But they have redefined them as a weapon covered by the Al Capone era National Firearms Act that requires a lengthy application, registration, photos and fingerprints, and a $200 tax.
"But what a lot of people don't realize is it also set a standard for how all gun laws, federal, state, and local, have to be evaluated in terms of does it pass constitutional muster. And that standard is we roll the calendar back to 1791 when the Second Amendment was adopted, the technical words are 'is there a historical analog for the proposed current law or the existing current law.
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