In a brief filed Monday, 20 Republican attorneys general joined efforts to rescind Delaware’s ban on certain semi-automatic guns.
In a brief filed Monday, 20 state attorneys general asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to overturn a lower court decision that upheld the ban. Gun rights groups filed a lawsuit in July 2022 challenging the bill because it violated the Second Amendment. according to To Delaware Public Media. (Related: Left-wing congressman denounces ‘militia’ in court ruling defending Americans’ gun rights)
File photo: An AR-15 style rifle on display at Firearms Unknown, a firearms store in Oceanside, California, USA, April 12, 2021.Reuters/Bing Guan/File Photo
Democratic Governor John Carney signed June 30, 2022, as part of a package of six bills that includes raising the minimum age to buy firearms to 21, banning so-called “high-capacity magazines,” increasing background checks, and establishing new liability standards for firearms. ban is enforced. Maker.
Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen of Montana told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “While the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees every American the right to keep and bear arms, no one in the country The state has no right to take it away immediately,” he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I will continue to defend the rights of firearm owners in Montana and across the United States.”
“These Delaware laws are grossly unconstitutional and the lower court’s ruling should be reversed,” Knudsen continued.
In June 2022, before Secretary Carney signed the bill, the Supreme Court struck down the “good cause” requirement for New York’s pistol license in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.National Shooting Sports Foundation Estimate As of July 2022, more than 24 million “modern sporting rifles,” one of the banned firearms, are in “circulation.” release.
Carney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.
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