On September 4, 2026, the Tennessee
Firearms Association (TFA) and Tennessee Firearms Foundation (TFF)
joined a coalition of national and state organizations and firearms
manufacturers in filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the
United States in Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al., No. 25-238, and Grant, et al. v. Ronnell Higgins,
et al., No. 25-566. The consolidated cases are before the Supreme Court
on writs of certiorari from the Seventh and Second Circuits. The amici
support the petitioners and ask the Court to reverse the judgments
below.
For TFA and TFF, the cases present a
fundamental Second Amendment question: can state and local governments
prohibit ordinary citizens from acquiring and possessing AR-15s (like
Memphis has tried to do with a charter amendment) and other
semiautomatic rifles that are owned by tens of millions of Americans,
simply by labeling them “assault weapons,” “unusually dangerous,” or
“military”? The amicus brief answers no – and urges the Court to apply
the text of the Second Amendment and the analytical rules already
established in Heller, Bruen, Rahimi, and Wolford.
