US EditionThe Trump administration is suing the District of Columbia over its gun laws
- On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, naming Washington's Metropolitan Police Department and challenging D.C.'s gun regulations as unconstitutional.
- The Justice Department said it filed the case to defend rights guaranteed for 234 years and repeatedly reaffirmed by the Supreme Court, invoking the 2008 Heller precedent and federal jurisdiction under the 1994 federal crime law.
- According to the complaint, DOJ lawyers assert the District of Columbia bans registration of widely used semiautomatic firearms, including Colt AR-15 rifles, based on cosmetics or accessories.
- It's the second such suit this month, following a DOJ case against the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia attorney general is separately challenging a National Guard deployment in court.
- DOJ argues the District has gone too far limiting weapons, framing the suit as a test of the Supreme Court's Heller precedent and its 'in common use today' language for District of Columbia residents.
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DOJ Sues DC Over Ban of Semi-Automatic Firearms
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued the District of Columbia over its ban on the AR-15 and “many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment.” In a statement announcing the lawsuit, the DOJ called the list “an unconstitutional incursion into the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes.” The lawsuit states that the ban is a denial of residents’ civil rights. “D.C. Def…
Trump's DOJ Sues Washington, D.C. Police Department Over Unconstitutional Ban on Semi-Automatic Firearms
Credit: Raw Pixel The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department for enforcing a ban on semi-automatic firearms in violation of the Second Amendment. The lawsuit alleges that D.C.’s gun laws require registration of all firearms with the MPD; however, the D.C. Code imposes a sweeping ban on numerous protected weapons, making it legally impossible for residents to own them for self-d…
The administration of US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit today against the local government of the US capital, Washington, D.C., over its gun regulations, claiming that it has imposed restrictions on certain types of semi-automatic weapons, contrary to the rights of the second amendment of the US Constitution.
DOJ Fights Back Against D.C.’s Gun Ban
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Washington, DC’s police department over its ban on several firearms, infringing upon the Second Amendment. According to the lawsuit, the District of Columbia “denies law-abiding citizens the ability to register a wide variety of commonly used semi-automatic firearms, such as the Colt AR-15 series rifles, which is among the most popular of firearms in America, and a variety of other semi-automatic…
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