BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation has been joined by several other groups and Second Amendment scholars in filing an amicus brief with the First U.S. Court of Appeals supporting a challenge of the Massachusetts semi-auto rifle ban.

Joining SAF are the Cato Institute, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Millennial Policy Center and the Independence Institute. The case is known as Worman v. Healey.

The case centers on a simple question: Can a state ban arms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens?

"We could hardly ignore a case of such importance," said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. "The ban on so-called 'assault weapons' now being enforced in Massachusetts under Attorney General Maura Healey's expanded definition is both arbitrary and unconstitutional. It cannot be allowed to stand, based on common sense and principles set down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2008 Heller ruling.
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