Supreme Court to Rule On Chicago Firearms Ban

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One can learn a great deal from filings of this nature:
Especially telling are these Amicus Brief filings:

In Support of Respondents

• Brief for the Anti-Defamation League
• Brief for Professors of Criminal Justice
• Brief for 34 Professional Historians and Legal Historians
• Brief for the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
• Brief for the Villages of Winnetka and Skokie, Illinois, the City of Evanston, Illinois, the Illinois Municipal League, and the International Municipal Lawyers Association
• Brief for American Cities, Cook County, Illinois, and Police Chiefs
• Brief for Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and District Attorneys
• Brief for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Legal Community Against Violence, Violence Policy Center, States United to Prevent Gun Violence, Freedom States Alliance, Connecticut Against Gun Violence, Maine Citizens Against Gun Violence, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Educational Fund, and Gunfreekids.Org
• Brief of Law Professor and Students
• Brief for Historians and Legal Scholars
• Brief for English/Early American Historians
• Brief for Historians on Early American Legal, Constitutional and Pennsylvania History
• Brief for Organizations Committed to Protecting the Pubic's Health, Safety, and Well-Being
• Brief for the States of Illinois, Maryland, and New Jersey
• Brief for the United States Conference of Mayors
• Brief for Representatives Carolyn McCarthy, Mike Quigley, and 53 Other Congress Members of the United States Congress
• Brief for the Oak Park Citizens Committee for Handgun Control

You can crack these babies open and find out who DOES NOT support gun rights...

And this really has more than just the 2nd Amendment as its foundation:

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits state and local governments from exercising their police powers to prohibit the possession of handguns based on a judgment that these firearms are unreasonably likely to be misused by criminals.