Second Amendment Foundation files opening brief in Supreme Court battle over semi-automatic gun bans

The opening salvo of a Second Amendment case centered on bans of modern semiautomatic firearms landed Friday afternoon at the United States Supreme Court. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) on Friday filed its opening brief in Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al., a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a local ban on so-called “assault weapons” passed by the defendant in 2006.…