华裔总检察长童慧侠向最高法院递交简报 为康州AR-15禁令辩护
康涅狄格州总检察长童慧侠（William Tong）10月21日宣布，已向美国最高法院递交法律简报，在 Grant v. Higgins 一案中为康州桑迪胡克事件后 AR-15 禁令的合宪性辩护。童慧侠是康州历史上首位当选全州公职的亚裔美国人，也是全美首位当选总检察长的华裔美国人。
童慧侠在声明中表示：康州的 AR-15 禁令合法、能拯救生命、并得到广泛支持。事实和法律都指向一个无可否认的结论：AR-15 异常危险、杀伤力过大，康州的禁令符合我国长期管制此类武器的历史传统。地方法院和上诉法院都认定该法律完全合宪，最高法院也应维持。我们将全力以赴，让这些战争武器远离我们的街道、学校和家庭。
康州于1993年首次通过攻击性武器禁令；2013年桑迪胡克小学枪击案后，州议会修订法律，将 AR-15 和 Bushmaster XM15 明确列入禁用名单。案发时，枪手持 AR-15 式步枪在不到五分钟内杀害20名儿童和6名教职员工。修订后的攻击性武器定义涵盖：可使用可拆卸弹匣、且带有折叠或伸缩枪托、手枪握把、前握把、消焰器或榴弹发射器等特征之一的半自动中央发火步枪。
简报主张，康州禁令符合最高法院在 Bruen 案中确立的历史传统检验标准，并援引从14世纪英格兰到21世纪美国管制异常危险武器的漫长历史。联邦第二巡回上诉法院已于2025年8月维持该法律合宪。最高法院定于12月2日就本案举行口头辩论，届时还将一并审理挑战伊利诺伊州 Cook 县攻击性武器条例的 Viramontes v. Cook County 一案。
Chinese American Attorney General William Tong Files Supreme Court Brief Defending Connecticut's AR-15 Ban
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced on October 21 that he had filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Grant v. Higgins, defending the constitutionality of Connecticut's post-Sandy Hook AR-15 ban. Tong is the first Asian American elected to statewide office in Connecticut history, and the first Chinese American elected attorney general in the nation.
In a statement, Tong said Connecticut's AR-15 ban is lawful, lifesaving and broadly supported, and that the facts and the law all point to an undeniable conclusion: AR-15s are unusually dangerous and excessively lethal, and Connecticut's ban is consistent with the nation's long history of regulating such weapons. He said both the district court and the appellate court agreed the law is fully constitutional and the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold it, and that his office will give the fight everything it has got to keep these weapons of war off the streets, out of schools and away from families.
Connecticut first enacted its assault weapons ban in 1993. In 2013, following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in which a gunman armed with an AR-15 style rifle murdered 20 children and six educators in under five minutes, the state updated the law to specifically add the AR-15 and the Bushmaster Model XM15 to the list of banned weapons, and updated the definition of prohibited assault weapons to cover semiautomatic, centerfire rifles capable of accepting a detachable magazine with at least one of the following features: a folding or telescoping stock, a pistol grip, a forward pistol grip, a flash suppressor, or a grenade launcher.
The brief argues Connecticut's ban is consistent with the historical tradition test established by the Supreme Court in the Bruen case, detailing bans on unusually dangerous weapons from fourteenth-century England through twenty-first century America. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the law in August 2025. Oral argument in the case is scheduled before the Supreme Court for December 2, when the court will also hear Viramontes v. Cook County, which challenges an assault weapons ordinance in Cook County, Illinois.
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图片来源：图：康涅狄格州总检察长童慧侠（William Tong）本人肖像，2023年1月4日就职仪式致辞时摄。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons，美国陆军／DVIDS 官方照片，摄影 Sgt. Matthew Lucibello。
