Standing His Ground: A legal blog on self-defense, gun control, and the Second Amendment
by Robert Leider

Tag: Arms

  • Are Rifles Constitutionally Protected Arms?

    In the Supreme Court, Illinois has filed its brief in opposition in Harrel v. Raoul (and its companion case Herrera v. Raoul).  These cases challenge Illinois’s ban on some semiautomatic rifles (“assault weapons”) and high-capacity magazines.  The brief in opposition is remarkable for how it asks the Supreme Court to expound which “arms” the Second Amendment protects.  The State’s brief leaves me wondering…