SCOTUS ruling could be beginning of end for AR-15 bans
6:00am Tuesday, July 07, 2026
On June 30, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, consolidating the matters to directly confront a constitutional question that activist lower courts have spent years dodging: whether the Second Amendment protects modern semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. This historic announcement marks the end of the beginning.



