The Supreme Court is set to weigh into a massive Second Amendment legal war over bans on some of the most popular firearms in the country, teeing up the high court’s most critical gun ruling in half a decade during the next term.

The high court will examine whether “assault weapons” bans, which typically outlaw the purchase of AR-15 and similar semiautomatic rifles, are constitutional under the Second and 14th amendments. The pair of lawsuits, which were consolidated before the Supreme Court, challenge bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut, and the group backing both legal challenges, the Second Amendment Foundation, believes the eventual ruling will have as big of an impact on gun law as the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

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