"But that's not necessarily the case, according to Janet Carter, a Second Amendment litigator with Everytown Law.

"The Second Amendment is not a blank check for gun rights advocates," Carter said. "It has always allowed for the regulation of particularly dangerous weapons and for weapons that are not in common use for self-defense.

That's why efforts to challenge these laws have failed all across the country.

Courts applying the new history and tradition test that was established in the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision have overwhelmingly agreed that banning assault weapons is constitutional."

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And there's this bit of history:

"Expert Brief
How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

"A fraud on the American public." That's how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a gun.

When he spoke these words to PBS in 1990, the rock-ribbed conservative appointed by Richard Nixon was expressing the longtime consensus of historians and judges across the political spectrum."