Posted on 07/05/2026 8:40:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Supreme Court’s Heller decision in 2008 established that the Second Amendment is a fundamental, unalienable—God-given--right that does indeed acknowledge, but not grant, the right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes such as self-defense. Unfortunately, the wheels of justice grind slowly, and it was not until 2022 that the Court handed down its Bruen decision, which affirmed that the right to bear arms extends to wherever Americans might be. What good is a right that can only be exercised in one’s home or on one’s property? Where is self-defense more likely, in one’s kitchen or out there in the wild, wild world?
While the Court did not define every issue involved, it did note that arms in “common use” are presumptively constitutional.
During those 14 years and beyond, anti-liberty/gun zealots wrote all manner of plainly unconstitutional laws to harass, bankrupt, and imprison gun makers and citizens in the expectation that if they made gun ownership too expensive, Americans would give up their guns. The opposite happened, and the more they tried to violate the Constitution, the more guns Americans bought, more than a million a month for many years.
Among the tactics employed against common firearms is labeling them “assault weapons.” And what might an “assault weapon” be? Generally, any gun anti-liberty/gun zealots want to ban. Specifically, they’ve focused on the exceedingly common AR-15, the most popular semiautomatic rifle in America, accounting for well over 20 million.
Graphic: Common AR-15 variant. Author.
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Now, to the horror of the self-imagined elite, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear two assault weapon ban cases in its next term:
SCOTUS will consolidate Viramontes v. Cook County, a Seventh Circuit (Illinois) case and Grant v. Higgins from the Second Circuit (Connecticut).
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I predict a 6-3 WIN.
Get it done.
Are you sure Amy Coney Barrett won’t look at a picture of an AR-15, and say “It looks heavy” before proceeding to dissent or go with whatever John Roberts decides?
The term is ubiquitous to describe the AR’s popularity.
Blue States declaring which Supreme court rulings apply to them and which don’t leaves this Country with some sever consequences.
We may have to fight another civil war to straighten this mess out.
Not so sure about that. Roberts and ACB are shaky at best.
Show her a pink one....maybe she won’t be scared of the thing.
While I personally would rather build a classic wooden stocked Mauser type my ARs were certainly popular with me before the creek got them.
Suppressor seem pretty common.
I got a hairy pink one to show her. With a brown eye in the middle. What a disappointment she’s been when it mattered.
A Thompson Submachine gun was ‘common’ in the 1920’s and early 30’s..............
And just like that we don’t have a constitution guaranteed equal rights. If the 2nd amendment is not applied equally, then neither is the 13th or 19th. Imagine women being denied the right to vote in the south and blacks put back into slavery.
A Thompson Submachine gun was ‘common’ in the 1920’s and early 30’s..............
Don’t tell anyone But
The M1A has slithered under the
Radar of All these Nabobs.
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Seems the AR is Extremely Popular and right now is Very affordable as is Ammo.
Instead of scary ‘AR’ assault rifle It should be ‘Americas’ Rifle’.
With a certain class of people in Chicago they were ‘common’. They even celebrated St. Valentine’s Day with them!...............😁
AR does not stand for ‘Assault Rifle’. It stands for “ArmaLite Rifle” the original designer and mfr.........
If Amy Coney Barrett goes by what she learned in college the outcome is simple: “assault rifles” sound and look scary so let’s ban them.
common?
they’re ubiquitous
almost as “common” as, alas: parking meters and taxes
It’s a rifle.
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