Grant v. Higgins Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Case Explained
Grant v. Higgins Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Case Explained. Supreme Court grants cert in Grant v. Higgins and Vermont v. Cook County—two landmark cases challenging AR-15 and standard-capacity magazine bans in Connecticut { "@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/58d66f2f-06ea-4f36-97bf-45035316660a.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-supreme-court-ar15-ban#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-supreme-court-ar15-ban" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/grant-v-higgins-supreme-court-ar15-ban", "headline": "Grant v. Higgins Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Case Explained", "name": "Grant v. Higgins Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Case Explained", "description": "Supreme Court grants cert in Grant v. Higgins and Vermont v. Cook County—two landmark cases challenging AR-15 and standard-capacity magazine bans in Connecticut", "articleSection": "Culture & News", "articleBody": "Grant v. Higgins is the Supreme Court case that will decide whether states can ban AR-15s and standard-capacity magazines. On the last day before its summer recess, the Court granted cert in Grant v. Higgins (the Connecticut challenge, formerly Grant v. Lamont) and consolidated it with Vermont v. Cook County out of Illinois. In his breaking-news livestream on Greyhive, Gun Guru called it the moment the 2A community has been waiting years for. Gun Guru broke the news within hours of learning it himself — a phone call from Josh at Lock and Load pulled him out of his pool to go live. \"The Supreme Court is going to hear a case to determine whether states have the ability to ban AR-15s and standard capacity magazines,\" he told viewers, reading directly from Second Amendment Foundation and Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) statements as they came in. The stakes are national. Both cases challenge so-called \"assault weapons\" bans — Connecticut's ban by name and feature, and Illinois' near-identical statewide statute that grew out of Cook County. A ruling for the plaintiffs wouldn't just restore the AR-15 in two states; it would set the constitutional standard for every state ban in the country. Key Takeaways The Supreme Court granted cert in Grant v. Higgins (Connecticut) and Vermont v. Cook County (Illinois, docket 25-238), consolidating both AR-15 ban challenges. Grant v. Higgins was …