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National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 23-1162, 23-1344 · judgment August 22, 2025
(petition-stage, structural)
About 3.3× the 4.1% base rate. The model weights this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing more than ten dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
This Court has held that arms typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes are protected by the Second Amendment. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 625 (2008). The Second Circuit disagrees. It wrote: “Even assuming arguendo that the desired firearms and magazines are ‘typically possessed’ and ‘in common use’ for lawful purposes, we disagree [that they are necessarily protected by the Second Amendment.]” Pet.App. 30a (emphasis added). The question presented is: Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by millions of law-abiding Americans for lawful purposes—violates the Second Amendment.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John-Paul Singh Deol
Dhillon Law Group lnc.
For respondent
Michael Kenneth Skold
Connecticut Office of the Attorney General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 18 conferences
Amicus briefs
2 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Jun 29 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/29/2026.
- Jun 22 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/25/2026.
- Jun 15 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2026.
- Jun 08 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/11/2026.
- Jun 01 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2026.
- May 26 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/28/2026.
- May 18 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2026.
- May 11 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
- Apr 29 2026Letter of Ned Lamont, Governor of CT, et al. filed.
- Apr 27 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2026.
- Apr 20 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2026.
- Apr 13 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2026.
- Mar 30 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/2/2026.
- Mar 25 2026Supplemental brief of respondents Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 23 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2026.
- Mar 17 2026Supplemental brief of petitioner National Association for Gun Rights, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 16 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Mar 02 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2026.
- Feb 23 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/27/2026.
- Jan 28 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 15 2026Rescheduled.
- Jan 07 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
- Jan 05 2026Reply of petitioners National Association for Gun Rights, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Dec 18 2025Brief of respondents Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. in opposition filed.
- Dec 03 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted in part and the time is further extended to and including December 18, 2025.
- Dec 01 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 8, 2025 to January 11, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 01 2025Response to motion to extend the time to file a response from petitioner filed.
- Nov 06 2025Brief amici curiae of Gun Owners of America, et al. filed.
- Nov 06 2025Brief amici curiae of Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center, et al. filed.
- Oct 24 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 8, 2025. See Rule 30.1.
- Oct 23 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 6, 2025 to December 6, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Oct 03 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 6, 2025)