加州总检察长Rob Bonta联署19名总检察长向最高法院递交简报 支持康州与Cook County突击步枪禁令
加州总检察长办公室10月28日在 Oakland 宣布，总检察长 Rob Bonta 当天以一个由19名总检察长组成的联盟成员身份，向美国最高法院递交法庭之友简报，支持康涅狄格州与伊利诺伊州 Cook County 限制某些突击步枪销售、制造与持有的法律。这份简报递交于 Viramontes v. County of Cook 一案，请求最高法院维持上诉法院的裁定，即这些受挑战的突击武器法律符合第二修正案，也符合美国管制独特危险武器的悠久历史传统。
Bonta 在声明中说：「加州司法部将继续积极捍卫能拯救生命的安全措施，并支持地方领导人获得保护民众安全所需的工具。突击武器法律限制的是一小类独特危险的武器，这类武器已成为大规模枪击案枪手的首选武器，这不是没有原因的。」他表示，加州近四十年前颁布了全美第一个州级突击武器限制，目的是保护居民免受带有战场特征、能无差别大规模杀人的武器侵害；最高法院有机会确认多家上诉法院已经认定的结论，即这些保护措施合理且合宪。他还指出，使用突击武器的枪手造成的死伤明显更多，2012年至2022年间受害者达10人及以上的大规模枪击案中，四分之三涉及突击武器的使用。
联盟的法庭之友简报提出，AR-15 平台及类似半自动步枪因其设计特征便于实施大规模袭击式杀戮、且不适合自卫用途，因而独特危险；简报同时说明，美国自历史上就有管制独特危险武器的传统。简报还请求最高法院驳回起诉方的主张，即任何武器只要达到某种任意设定的普及门槛，第二修正案便禁止法律对其加以限制；简报称，这种结果危险、不合逻辑也不合历史，与最高法院的第二修正案判例相悖，还会鼓励枪支制造商在立法机构来得及立法规制之前，向社区大量投放新的危险武器。
加州总检察长办公室介绍，加州一直是制定有效枪支安全法律的领先州份：1989年，共和党籍州长 George Deukmejian 签署了加州最初的两党突击武器限制法，此前 Stockton 的 Cleveland 小学发生仇恨动机枪击案，一名枪手持 AK-47 式半自动突击步枪与可拆卸的大容量弹匣，在约三分钟内开火100多次，打死5名年幼儿童，打伤30名学生和1名教师。加州司法部枪支暴力预防办公室2026年的一份报告显示，2023年至2025年加州的大规模枪击受害率比全美其余地区平均水平低38%。目前另有10个州和若干城市普遍限制突击步枪的销售、制造与持有，包括 AK-47 和 AR-15。
康涅狄格州于1993年首次颁布突击武器法，2012年12月 Sandy Hook 小学枪击案后于2013年扩法；该案中，一名枪手持 AR-15 式步枪和大容量弹匣，在不到五分钟内开火150多次，杀害20名儿童和6名教育工作者。
与 Bonta 一同递交这份简报的，还有亚利桑那、科罗拉多、特拉华、哥伦比亚特区、夏威夷、伊利诺伊、缅因、马里兰、马萨诸塞、密歇根、明尼苏达、新泽西、新墨西哥、纽约、俄勒冈、罗德岛、佛蒙特和华盛顿州的总检察长。Viramontes 案与挑战康涅狄格州法律的 Grant v. Higgins 案已由最高法院合并审理，定于12月2日举行口头辩论。
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California AG Rob Bonta Joins Coalition of 19 Attorneys General in Supreme Court Brief Backing Connecticut and Cook County Assault Rifle Bans
The California Attorney General's Office announced in Oakland on October 28 that Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting laws enacted in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, that restrict the sale, manufacture, and possession of certain assault rifles. The brief, filed in Viramontes v. County of Cook, urges the Supreme Court to uphold appellate court rulings that found the challenged assault weapon laws consistent with the Second Amendment and the nation's strong historical tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous weapons.
"The California Department of Justice will continue to aggressively defend life-saving safety measures and support local leaders with the tools necessary to keep people safe. Assault weapon laws restrict a small and uniquely dangerous category of weapons that have proven to be mass shooters' weapon of choice for a reason," Bonta said in the statement. He said California enacted the nation's first state-level assault weapons restriction almost four decades ago to protect residents from weapons with battlefield features that facilitate indiscriminate mass killing, and that the Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm what many appellate courts have already found: that these protections are reasonable and constitutional. He also noted that a mass shooter with an assault weapon can inflict more deaths and injuries than those using other weapons, and that three-quarters of mass shootings with 10 or more victims from 2012 to 2022 involved an assault weapon.
The coalition's brief argues that the AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles are uniquely dangerous because their features facilitate assaultive mass killing and are poorly designed for self-defense, and that the United States has a long historical tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous weapons. It also urges the Court to reject the petitioners' argument that the Second Amendment prohibits laws restricting any weapon once it reaches an arbitrary popularity threshold, arguing that outcome would be dangerous, illogical, and ahistorical, contrary to the Court's Second Amendment caselaw, and would encourage manufacturers to flood communities with new dangerous weapons before legislatures can act.
According to the Attorney General's Office, California has been a leader among states with effective firearm safety laws. Republican Governor George Deukmejian signed California's initial bipartisan assault weapons restriction in 1989, after a hate-motivated shooting at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, where a gunman wielding an AK-47-style semiautomatic assault rifle with detachable 30-round and 75-round large-capacity magazines fired over 100 times in about three minutes, murdering five young children and injuring 30 other students and a teacher. A 2026 report from the California Department of Justice's Office of Gun Violence Prevention showed California's mass shooting victimization rate for 2023-2025 fell to 38% below the rate for the rest of the United States on average. Today, 10 other states and several cities generally restrict the sale, manufacture, and possession of assault rifles, including the AK-47 and AR-15.
Connecticut enacted its initial assault weapons law in 1993 and expanded it in 2013 following the December 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, in which a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle and large-capacity magazines fired over 150 rounds and murdered 20 children and six educators in under five minutes.
Bonta was joined in filing the brief by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The Supreme Court has consolidated Viramontes with Grant v. Higgins, the challenge to Connecticut's law, and has scheduled oral argument for December 2.
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