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Virginia AG: \u2018AR-15s Are Machine Guns Except That They\u2019 Are Not<\/a><\/p>\n

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who fantasized about murdering his political opponent and wishing death upon the man\u2019s children, thinks the most popular semiautomatic rifle on the market is the same thing as a machine gun.<\/p>\n

Jones made his remarkable ignorance on guns and the Second Amendment known on Wednesday in the form of a brief to the Supreme Court, which is slated to weigh a challenge to an Illinois county\u2019s ban on the possession and transfer of so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d: AR-15s and similar semiautomatic firearms. In the document filed in support of Cook County\u2019s firearm prohibitions, Jones argues that \u201cAR-15s bear nearly all the same features that take machineguns outside the Second Amendment\u2019s protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

He kicks off the brief by lying that AR-15s were restricted by states \u201csince shortly after\u201d they \u201cbecame broadly available to American consumers.\u201d Colt began selling ArmaLite\u2019s semiautomatic rifle to Americans in the 1960s, but it wasn\u2019t until 1989 that California sought to interfere in those transfers.<\/p>\n

Jones also points to AR-15 restrictions in \u201c11 states and the District of Columbia \u2014 collectively representing over 34 percent of the United States\u2019 population\u201d as proof that states like his can and should be allowed to dictate Americans\u2019 Second Amendment right to own semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n

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Virginia lies in its opening sentence. AR15s were available in the 1960s and on to consumers, and the first ban didn’t come until 1989 in California. Even by 2000, only seven states banned them.<\/p>\n

Today 12 do if you count Virginia’s enjoined provision, but five of those came during the post-Bruen tantrum since 2022.<\/p>\n

These are outlier laws.<\/p>\n

Virginia tries to get ahead of this criticism by saying AR15s were rare until the 1990s. Even if that were true, AWBs do not only affect AR15s; tons of other common guns were banned too.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) October 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n