{"id":36300,"date":"2026-06-30T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36300"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:35:32","slug":"scotus-grants-cert-to-awb-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36300","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Grants Cert To AWB Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the most recent Order List<\/a><\/strong> from the US Supreme Court, certiorari was granted in two challenges to assault weapons bans. They granted cert in Viramontes <\/em><\/a><\/strong>out of Illinois and Grant<\/em><\/a><\/strong> out of Connecticut. <\/p>\n

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25-238 ) VIRAMONTES, CUTBERTO, ET AL. V. COOK COUNTY, IL, ET AL.)
25-566 ) GRANT, EDDIE, ET AL. V. HIGGINS, RONNELL, ET AL.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted as to the question presented by the petition in No. 25-238. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Both cases have attorneys from Cooper & Kirk as the attorneys of record. The question raised in Viramontes <\/em>was a bit more succinct that the question raised in Grant<\/em>. It merely asked: “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.” Grant <\/em>also included “common use” and “lawful purposes” in its wording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two other AWB cases remain active as cert has not been denied. They are the California case of Duncan v Bonta<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and the Washington State case of Gator’s Custom Guns v Washington<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. They were scheduled for conference yesterday but were not included in today’s order list. The attorneys in both these cases are Erin Murphy and Paul Clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other 2A cases, NRA v. Glass<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, was denied cert. This was the NRA challenge to Florida’s law denying 18-20 year olds the right to buy firearms of any sort from a licensed dealer. There are moves to reduce the age in the Florida legislature but it seems to be held up in the Florida Senate<\/a><\/strong>. However, an appeals court in Florida<\/a><\/strong> has just ruled that 18-20 years have the right to carry a firearm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court also denied cert to a West Virginia case, WV Citizens Defense League v BATFE<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which challenged the restrictions on the purchase of handguns by 18-20 year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next term of the Supreme Court will be very interesting with two and maybe four challenges to assault weapons bans.<\/p>\n

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