Twenty years in prison for possession of gun parts? Such was the sentence handed to Patrick Adamiak. 2ALC recently joined the Second Amendment Foundation, NRA, and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus in an amicus brief supporting Mr. Adamiak’s appeal to the Supreme Court.
As if to point up the crucial need for a question “what is an arm?”, this brutal sentence certainly asserts that even cut-up parts or fake guns should be considered “dangerous”. But still we have restrictions on ammo, suppressors, and other parts that, when challenged, skirt around the Second Amendment and claim it’s not applicable.
“Adamiak points up the insanity inspired by our current double standard,” claims 2ALC President Chuck Michel, one of the attorneys handling the case. “It is high time the Supreme Court settle this issue once and for all.”
The brief makes two core arguments: first, that if the government treats Adamiak’s cut‑up gun parts and inert RPG‑7 “dummy” as regulated “firearms,” then they necessarily qualify as “arms” under the Second Amendment and thus trigger a required historical‑tradition analysis under Bruen—and if they are not “arms,” then his convictions make no sense and he should be released. Second, the amici argue that lower courts are evading Bruen by misusing a “plain text” threshold test that keeps many Second Amendment challenges from ever reaching the historical inquiry this Court mandated.
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