The Second Amendment Applies to Rifles, Too | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Jon Guze.

    On Feb. 14, 2022, on behalf of the John Locke Foundation, Jon Guze joined several legal scholars in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting review of a highly important Second Amendment case, Bianchi v. Frosh. From the press release:

    As part of our commitment to the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the John Locke Foundation has joined a brief in Bianchi v. Frosh, a critical Second Amendment case in which the plaintiffs are requesting review by the U.S. Supreme Court, formally known as a Petition for Writ of Certiorari.

    In Bianchi v. Frosh, Dominic Bianchi is challenging Maryland's law against widely owned semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15s, guns the state law deems military-style "assault weapons." Maryland residents are banned from owning and possessing these firearms. A Supreme Court decision in the case would help to clarify the types of firearms that are constitutionally protected.

    The brief, which includes an extensive discussion of colonial-era firearms, is available at the Supreme Court's website.