Videos tagged with Facilitate Armed Self-Defense

This video analyzes legal arguments presented in the US v. Rahimi Supreme Court case, focusing on how 'Second Amendment law scholars' are attempting to subtly alter the interpretation of Second Amendment rights. The speaker, a constitutional attorney, argues that a brief submitted by these scholars aims to introduce a new, stricter test for Second Amendment protections by adding the requirement that a firearm 'facilitate armed self-defense' to the existing 'common use' test. This, he contends, could be used by lower courts to more easily ban firearms like AR-15s, which are in common use but may be argued by opponents as not facilitating self-defense in the way the new test implies.