In National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont, the Second Circuit decided that a Second Amendment challenge to Connecticut’s ban on many semiautomatic firearms does not have a likelihood of success. The court assumed that possession of the firearms is constitutionally protected per Bruen’s textual step 1, but held that the ban is consistent with our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation under step 2. That conclusion is in blatant conflict with Heller’s holding that arms that are in common use are protected by the Second Amendment and may not be banned.

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