Virginia Gov. Spanberger signed 'assault weapons' ban legislation and the NRA and SAF immediately filed a lawsuit.
On Thursday, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an “assault weapons” ban legislation into law and the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation immediately filed a lawsuit.
Other plaintiffs with the NRA and SAF include private citizens Justin McDonald and Anthony Groeneveld, as well as the Firearms Policy Coalition. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Alexandria Division, begins: The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms”… Under this constitutional provision, Plaintiffs, including McDonald and Groeneveld, and all other law-abiding Virginians have a fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear common firearms for defense of self, family, and community, and for other lawful pursuits.
But the Commonwealth has enacted, and Defendants are charged with enforcing, a flat prohibition on the importation, manufacturing, sale, purchase, and transfer of many common firearms — tendentiously labeled “assault firearms” — making it a crime for law-abiding citizens to exercise their fundamental right to keep and bear such arms. Later in the complaint, plaintiffs contend that the semiautomatic firearms banned by Virginia Democrats are in “common use” and therefore protected by the Second Amendment per Indeed, the Supreme Court recently, and unanimously, noted that “AR-15 rifles, AK-47 rifles, and .50 caliber sniper rifles… are both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers. ”the DOJ would sue Virginia if Spanberger signed the “assault weapons” ban. We have the lawsuit from the NRA, SAF, FPC, and private citizens, and now await the suit from the DOJ.l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News.
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