Supreme Court will decide a gun-rights challenge to blue-state bans on assault weapons
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a Second Amendment challenge to the gun laws in Connecticut and Cook County, Ill., that ban most semiautomatic assault weapons. Before leaving for the summer recess, the justices issued orders on new cases that will be heard in the fall. The new Second Amendment case figures to be a major test of what kinds of firearms and ...