Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones filed an amicus brief in Viramontes v. Cook County, No. 25-238, urging the Supreme Court to uphold Va. Code § 18.2-287.4:1 assault firearms purchase and sale bans as it decides if the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifle possession. It argues AR-15s are machineguns except initially semiautomatic sharing nearly all unprotected features, citing bump-stocks, auto-sears, forced reset triggers and binary triggers, and simple conversion steps do not change they are not meaningfully less dangerous, so states may restrict them as machineguns. No other entity signed onto the brief.