{"id":92179,"date":"2023-04-25T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92179"},"modified":"2023-04-25T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T00:40:18","slug":"92179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92179","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

There is<\/em> no argument. They are!<\/p>\n

Every Firearm Can Be Used For Self-Defense! Argues the Second Amendment Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

BELLEVUE, WA \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case challenging the Illinois semi-auto ban\u00a0today filed a\u00a036-page response<\/a>\u00a0to Cook County\u2019s motion for summary judgment in a case challenging Cook County\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n

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Joining SAF, in this case, are the Firearms Policy Coalition and three private citizens, all Cook County residents. They are Cutberto Viramontes, Rubi Joyal, and Christopher Khaya. They are represented by attorneys David Sigale of Wheaton, Ill., David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, and William V. Bergstrom, all with Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C. The case is known as Viramontes v. Cook County<\/i><\/a>. It was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in August 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cCook County has made only one argument in its motion that seems to misread the Supreme Court\u2019s Bruen ruling from June of last year,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cThe county is claiming that \u2018arms\u2019 applies only to firearms that \u2018facilitate armed self-defense,\u2019 and makes the arbitrary claim that the banned firearms are excluded from this definition because \u2018there is nothing defensive whatsoever\u2019 about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery firearm can be used for self-defense,\u201d he added, \u201cand either the county knows that already, or they are woefully ignorant about firearms in general, and especially the ones affected by the ban.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut, a practicing attorney, noted, \u201cThe Bruen ruling made it clear that every Second Amendment case must proceed first by analyzing the text of the amendment and then examining the\u00a0country\u2019s history of firearm regulation,<\/a>\u00a0to determine whether the banned firearm is \u2018dangerous and unusual.\u2019 One look at the number of modern semiautomatic rifles currently owned by private citizens shows they are hardly \u2018dangerous and unusual\u2019 in any context.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe county further argues the AR-15 is a semiautomatic version of the military M-16, which is nonsense,\u201d Kraut continued. \u201cAll of the county\u2019s arguments seem aimed at creating a false impression about the banned firearms, which operate no differently than any other semi-auto. The county is simply wrong in its arguments, and the motion for summary judgment should be denied.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no argument. They are! Every Firearm Can Be Used For Self-Defense! Argues the Second Amendment Foundation BELLEVUE, WA \u2013\u00a0Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case challenging the Illinois semi-auto ban\u00a0today filed a\u00a036-page response\u00a0to Cook County\u2019s motion for summary judgment in a case challenging Cook County\u2019s ban. Joining SAF, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92180,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92179\/revisions\/92180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}