Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read
The chances are zilch, for the simple reason that the common-use standard embodied in the Supreme Court’s Heller decision protects the very weapons that an “assault weapons” ban would seek to cover, e.g. that bugbear of the anti-gun mob, the AR-15. Estimates vary but there are probably around 5 million AR-15s in private hands in the US—easily meeting the common-use standard. Such a ban would, therefore, be unconstitutional.
