Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to overturn rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, which upheld AR-15 bans in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, respectively. “The AR-15 rifle is unquestionably in common use among law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” the federal government argued. The cases, Viramontes v.… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
