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We'll see. The Seventh Circuit just upheld an AWB, applying the Bruen standard, and a petition for cert was just filed last month. So we'll probably know by this summer if the Court believes that the 2A prohibits AWB's under Bruen.

Here's a filing of interest, stemming from one of the many suits against Illinois' AWB.

Barnett vs. Raoul: nssf.org - Barnett FFLpetition

When this Court discarded the approach that
nearly every court of appeals had been applying to
Second Amendment challenges as incompatible with
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008),
and insufficiently protective of a fundamental right,
one would have thought that everyone would finally
get that emphatic message. Unfortunately, Illinois
responded to this Court’s seminal decision in New
York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen,
597 U.S. 1 (2022), with defiance. Rather than trim
back existing restrictions on constitutionally protected
rights to comply with Bruen, Illinois promptly enacted
the most restrictive firearms law in the state’s 200
year history, banning the possession of more than
1,000 previously lawful semiautomatic rifles, pistols,
and shotguns, including many of the most popular
models in the country, along with their component
parts, plus ubiquitous ammunition feeding devices.
More remarkable still, a divided panel of the Seventh
Circuit vindicated that massive resistance by
resurrecting pre-Bruen caselaw and embracing the
novel theory that Illinois’ law does not even implicate
the Second Amendment and trigger the state’s burden
to prove that it is “consistent with this Nation’s
historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Id. at 17.
The Seventh Circuit’s decision cannot begin to be
reconciled with this Court’s precedents. Indeed,
rather than faithfully follow Heller and Bruen, the
majority castigated and cast them aside at every turn.

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