WASHINGTON (August 23, 2024) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced that a petition for writ of certiorari has been filed with the United States Supreme Court in the case of Oakland Tactical v. Howell Township, an FPC-supported lawsuit out of Michigan challenging restrictions on firearms training and shooting ranges. The petition can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.

“The Supreme Court should take this case to explicitly confirm that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to train with firearms and the facilities required to that end,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “We look forward to continuing to support this case and hope the Court will correct the Sixth Circuit’s dangerously misguided opinion.”

“Under the text and history of the Second Amendment, the appropriate length of available shooting ranges must be dictated not by the Amendment’s text (which quite obviously does not speak to the issue at all) or by the distance achieved by marksmen at the Founding, but rather by the effective range of the firearms that are commonly possessed by law-abiding Americans,” argues the petition. “And since firearms in common use for lawful purposes have an effective range that extends to 1,000 yards, there is no basis for concluding that training at that distance is ‘extrem[e],’ ‘[un]necessary,’ or ‘not protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment.’”

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