Women for Gun Rights Celebrates Holly Sullivan’s Role in Grant v. Lamont

The Supreme Court will finally hear a case involving a ban on so-called assault weapons. This is fantastic news, to say the least, and I’m still giddy about reading the case’s name in the Supreme Court’s orders as having been granted cert.

They’ll hear it, and I think we all know how that one’s going to go.

But while it’s good news for us, it’s better news for the people who have been knee-deep in these cases, and Women for Gun Rights is celebrating one of their own who played a key role in this one.

As Women for Gun Rights celebrates its 10th anniversary, the organization is also celebrating a major milestone achieved by one of its own.

Women for Gun Rights proudly congratulates Holly Sullivan, President of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) and a Legacy Member of Women for Gun Rights, as Grant v. Lamont heads to the United States Supreme Court.

For more than four years, Holly, CCDL, and their legal team have remained patient, determined, and unwavering in their challenge to Connecticut’s ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles, including AR-15s. Their perseverance has now brought one of the most significant Second Amendment cases in decades before the nation’s highest court.

The Supreme Court receives thousands of requests to hear cases every year but accepts only a small percentage. By agreeing to hear Grant v. Lamont, the Court has signaled that it is prepared to answer a constitutional question with nationwide implications.

At its core, the case asks a straightforward question:

Can a state ban an entire class of firearms that millions of law-abiding Americans commonly own for lawful purposes such as self-defense, recreation, hunting, and competitive shooting?

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“Holly has been part of the Women for Gun Rights family since the very beginning,” said Dianna Muller, founder and CEO for Women for Gun Rights. “Her leadership, patience, and determination over the past four years demonstrate what committed citizens can accomplish. This case didn’t happen overnight—it is the result of years of hard work, countless hours, and the refusal to give up. Everyone at Women for Gun Rights is incredibly proud of Holly and the Connecticut Citizens Defense League for staying the course.”

I don’t know Holly, myself, though we share a lot of mutual friends, and I know they’re all proud of her role in this as well. The truth is that Grant v. Lamont is the kind of case we’ve been waiting for beyond a reasonable time. The fact that, even after Heller and Bruen, courts keep upholding these abominations of laws is baffling to me, except that I know the law doesn’t really apply to a lot of these judges except as the mechanism they have to twist to justify the restrictions they prefer on an emotional level, rather than a legal one.

At the core of the arguments, we’ll likely find a discussion of whether these guns are “in common use,” which should be a no-brainer. They’re the most popular long gun model on the market today. They’ve soared in popularity since the 1996 Assault Weapon Ban created a sense of immediacy for gun buyers, but by the time the law sunset, the firearm community was hooked, and they’ve never stopped being popular.

They’re used every day for target practice, competition shooting, varmint hunting, and yes, self-defense.

I don’t like the whole “in common use” test for gun rights, but that doesn’t change the fact that so-called assault weapons pass it.

I appreciate Sullivan’s good work here and the rest of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League for theirs.

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