U.S. Supreme Court
May 25, 2023
‘Common use’ gun dispute appears destined high court
In a brief filed Monday over an Oregon ban of large capacity magazines, attorneys for gun rights groups said the law should be blocked due to the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen,
Are large capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles so popular that they cannot be banned under the Second Amendment?
Gun rights groups say yes, arguing in pending cases in the wake of a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that arms “in common use” cannot be banned regardless of whether they existed when the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791.
In a brief filed Monday over an Oregon ban on large ca...
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