The National Rifle Association (NRA), the nation’s oldest and largest gun rights advocacy organization, filed a critical brief Thursday through its Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).
The Reply Brief concerned the ongoing challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) and its restrictions on short-barreled rifles (SBRs). The NRA, in its filing, urged the bench to take up Rush v. United States and provide a permanent solution to a simmering issue.
Otherwise law-abiding citizens face harsh federal penalties for possessing SBRs
A good citizen is in deep trouble if they are caught with a rifle having a barrel shorter than 16 inches.
Under the NFA, that individual may be imprisoned for up to 10 years and fined up to $250,000. Needless to say, the firearm must be surrendered to authorities.
The current case involves defendant Jamond Rush, who was charged with possessing one of the prohibited weapons under the NFA. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison, and his appeals at the federal level and before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed.
NRA-ILA filing declared that the federal appeals court ignored the Constitution
The NRA-ILA entered the fray in June when attorneys filed a Petition for Certiorari asking that the high court hear the case.
The venerable group wrote then that the Supreme Court already spoke clearly and decisively on the matter.
“This Court has held and repeatedly reaffirmed that the Second Amendment’s plain text covers all bearable arms,” the NRA-ILA declared. “The Seventh Circuit, however, has injected several limitations in the plain text—limitations that resulted in the exclusion of semiautomatic rifles owned in the tens of millions, ammunition magazines owned in the hundreds of millions, and, here, rifles with shorter-than-average barrels, numbering over half a million.”
In this week’s action, the NRA-ILA asserted that the Seventh Circuit ignored Supreme Court precedents and violated the Second Amendment.
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