August 22, 2025
The Second Circuit on Friday refused to temporarily block Connecticut's restrictions on AR-15-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, saying the National Association for Gun Rights and individual permit holders were unlikely to mount successful Second Amendment challenges to laws passed shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
October 16, 2024
A Second Circuit panel put the phrase "dangerous and unusual" under a microscope Wednesday as three judges considered dual challenges to Connecticut's post-Sandy Hook bans on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines, working to parse out whether the state's restrictions are allowed under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
August 16, 2023
Less than two weeks after a federal judge in Connecticut declined to enjoin state bans on most assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, the gun rights group that challenged the laws filed preliminary paperwork to appeal the decision to the Second Circuit.
August 03, 2023
A federal judge on Thursday declined to grant a preliminary injunction against a Connecticut assault weapons ban passed in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, agreeing with the government that such weapons are "more often used in crimes and mass shootings than in self-defense."
June 05, 2023
In oral arguments that parsed two U.S. Supreme Court cases for guidance, attorneys for the state of Connecticut told a federal judge Monday that an AR-15 ban passed in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre should remain intact despite a gun rights group's request for a preliminary injunction against the measure.
September 06, 2022
A firearm rights group on Tuesday took aim at a pair of Connecticut statutes passed after the Sandy Hook massacre that prohibited most people from owning semiautomatic rifles, like the AR-15, and magazines capable of holding 10 or more bullets, leaning on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to call the statutes unconstitutional.