Grant v Higgins SCOTUS: 43 Amicus Briefs Filed Against
Grant v Higgins SCOTUS: 43 Amicus Briefs Filed Against. The anti-gun lobby submits 43 amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court in Grant v Higgins. We break down who filed, their arguments, and why they're flawed. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/gun_guru#person", "name": "Gun Guru", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/gun_guru", "description": "Gun Guru is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/d89c0392-fdea-40f3-8282-2ad18d743e5b.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-scotus-amicus-briefs-analysis#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-scotus-amicus-briefs-analysis" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-scotus-amicus-briefs-analysis", "headline": "Grant v Higgins SCOTUS: 43 Amicus Briefs Filed Against", "name": "Grant v Higgins SCOTUS: 43 Amicus Briefs Filed Against", "description": "The anti-gun lobby submits 43 amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court in Grant v Higgins. We break down who filed, their arguments, and why they're flawed.", "articleSection": "Culture & News", "articleBody": "Grant v. Higgins is the Second Amendment challenge to Connecticut's ban on AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles, and in the two days before this video was recorded the anti-gun side buried the Supreme Court in roughly 43 amicus curiae briefs. In his breakdown on Greyhive, Chris from Gun Guru opened and summarized every single one of them — cover page by cover page — rather than cherry-picking the three or four that made headlines. The case was formerly captioned Grant v. Lamont. Oral arguments are set for December 2 , where it will be heard alongside Bermane v. Lee County. Gun Guru is hosting a live stream of the arguments on his channel that day, and he has posted a Google Drive folder with the briefs themselves in his pinned comment so viewers can read the filings directly instead of taking anyone's word for what they say. What follows is the structure of that filing wave: who signed on, what the four recurring arguments actually are, and where Gun Guru says each one breaks down against the record and against the Supreme Court's own language. Key Takeaways Roughly 43 amicus briefs were filed against the AR-15 in Grant v. Higgins over a two-day window; 41 were uploaded to Gun Guru's public folder at time of recording. Filers include Massachusetts, New Jersey and 16 other states plus the District of Columbia, the City of Chicago and 23 other cities and counties, the NYPD,…