Historians filed an amicus brief as the Supreme Court reviews firearm bans in Viramontes v. Cook County. The filing also covers Grant v. Higgins. They contend that limits on semiautomatic rifles and magazines match a long U.S. pattern of regulating arms that officials saw as unusually hazardous, citing colonial carry rules, 1800s Bowie knife sale curbs, Reconstruction Winchester seizures, and 1920s-1930s machine gun statutes. Eighteenth-century repeaters such as the Cookson, Belton experimental arm, and Girardoni air rifle of Lewis and Clark were rare, they say. South Carolina under Governor Robert K. Scott seized Winchesters from Ku Klux Klan members and recovered militia guns, while Louisiana adjutant James Longstreet restricted armory Winchester use in drills.