SAF Files Amicus in Case Challenging SBR Restrictions

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Aug. 28, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed an amicus temporary with the Supreme Court docket urging the courtroom hear Jamond M. Rush v. United States of America, a case difficult restrictions on short-barreled rifles (SBRs). It’s SAF’s second Supreme Court docket amicus temporary on this subject, following an analogous temporary filed in David Robinson Jr. v. United States of America.

SAF is joined within the amicus submitting by the Second Modification Regulation Middle, California Rifle & Pistol Affiliation and Minnesota Gun House owners Caucus.

“Just like different circuit courts, the Seventh Circuit determined that U.S. v. Miller (1939) and its ruling permitting restrictions on short-barrel shotguns as a result of they’d no documented militia use, stays controlling and relevant to SBRs as effectively,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Schooling Kostas Moros. “Our amicus temporary makes a number of arguments as to why the Seventh Circuit’s evaluation was flawed and why the Supreme Court docket ought to grant cert on this case. We’re hopeful the Supreme Court docket will step in and proper courts reaching the improper conclusion on this elementary query, each because it pertains to SBRs and to different frequent arms.”

The temporary explains that SBR’s are “arms” below the plain textual content of the Second Modification. To be able to then regulate them, it’s the authorities’s burden to point out a historic custom of such regulation. Such a historic custom merely doesn’t exist, neither is there one supporting the taxation regime of the Nationwide Firearms Act. The temporary additionally discusses how some circuit courts are getting primary questions on protected arms improper and misapplying the Bruen evaluation, which necessitates the Supreme Court docket’s intervention.

“That is the second amicus temporary we’ve got filed in an SBR petition this month as a result of this subject is essential to SAF because it instantly pertains to which types of arms the Second Modification protects,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Along with amicus briefs, our new lawsuit in Brown v. ATF challenges the constitutionality of parts of the Nationwide Firearms Act, all with the identical purpose in thoughts: Restoring the Second Modification rights of all Individuals.”

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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of america Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the rules of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Via public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the suitable to maintain and bear arms.