See SCOTUSBlog.

Whether the Second and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles … Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 25-566 is granted as to the question presented by the petition in No. 25-238.

The supreme court order is found here.

I have long advocated that the supreme court take up an AR ban case and decide this issue once and for all. Delaying this has done nothing good for either citizens or jurisprudence.

However, there is no reason to necessarily conclude the supreme court will decide this issue in the affirmative, especially with Barrett and Roberts having to be persuaded. But what it will do is stop this incessant whining in state legislatures over the issue. Either the supreme court judges in the affirmative and the issue of decided, or they don’t and states pick off God-granted rights one by one and citizens have to decide whether to fight the political battle (rather than reflexively lean on that tired platitude that “we aren’t voting our way out of this”), or decide to be ready when the SWAT teams come to the front door in the middle of the night.

This will be an extremely clarifying moment in American history.

The attorneys arguing the case are Cooper and kirk.  They did the Peterson 5^th circuit NFA case and a bunch of others, including Vanderstok, which lost. I don’t know much about them beyond that.

But I do know that if they argue the ridiculous trope about ARs being just some other firearm with extra cosmetic features and that those cosmetic features don’t really have any effect on the use of the weapon, they will lose. It’s not about that. It was never about cosmetic features. It’s about effective firearms for the amelioration of tyranny. “Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of Americans. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tench Coxe, an American political economist and delegate to the Continental Congress, best known for his passionate defense of the right to bear arms. In a 1788 article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette under the pseudonym “A Pennsylvanian.”

This notion of military style weapons is and always has been a misdirect and a bald and stupid emotional appeal. There is no such thing as a non-military style weapon. Every weapon was at one time a military style weapon, from rocks to spears and then to knives and swords and then on to bows and then to muskets, bolt action rifles, and semiautomatic and fully automatic rifles.

The U.S. Marine Corps used Benelli shotguns for room clearing in Now Zad, Afghanistan, and I can prove it.

Door gunners used revolvers in Vietnam, and I can prove it.

MACV-SOG used revolvers and Marlin .444 lever action rifles in Laos, and I can prove it.

And bolt action rifles are still in use today with snipers. Make no mistake about this issue. It’s about disarming the public, not “military style weapons.”

And it’s about far more than just all of the above. A high-powered optic will convert a bolt action deer rifle into a sniper rifle if certain gun controller states get their way.