This Court has held that the Second Amendment
"guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry
weapons in case of confrontation." District of Columbia
v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 592 (2008). Cook County, Illinois, prohibits its residents from possessing a class of
rifles and magazines that are among the most commonplace in the United States.

The questions presented are:

1. Whether the Second Amendment to the
United States Constitution allows a local
government to prohibit law-abiding residents
from possessing and protecting themselves
and their families with a class of rifles and
ammunition magazines that are "in common
use at [this] time" and are not "dangerous and
unusual."

2. Whether the Seventh Circuit's method
of analyzing Second Amendment issues - a
three-part test which asks whether (1) a regulation bans weapons that were common at
the time of ratification or (2) those that have
some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia
and (3) whether law-abiding citizens retain
adequate means of self-defense - is consistent
with this Court's holding in Heller.

Whether the Second Amendment allows a local government to prohibit law-abiding residents from possessing and protecting themselves with a class of rifles and magazines that are 'in common use' and not 'dangerous and unusual'