Law profs urge SCOTUS to overturn "assault weapons" ban

I recently had the chance to speak with the Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb about a case out of Maryland that challenges the state’s ban on so-called assault weapons, and on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we’re following up on that discussion with a very insightful conversation with Second Amendment attorney, professor, and scholar David Kopel, who’s the main author of an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the lawsuit on behalf of several law professors and organizations like the Cato Institute, John Locke Foundation, and the Independence Institute, where Kopel serves as research director.

The main thrust of the brief, according to Kopel, is to hammer home the point that lower court decisions upholding bans on modern sporting rifles are based on “untenable reasoning” and violate existing Supreme Court precedent. From the brief’s opening paragraphs: