President Trump is on a mission.
The left has no idea what is about to hit it.
That’s because Trump just demanded the Supreme Court steamroll Democrats with this bombshell ruling.
The Supreme Court has spent decades avoiding cases involving the Democratic Party’s unconstitutional gun grabs.
But now the Trump administration is forcing the court to get in the game by filing key lawsuits targeting blue states’ assault on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
The Trump administration sued to overturn two illegal attempts to strip Americans of their right to keep and bear arms.
One suit aimed at Colorado’s so-called “high capacity” magazine ban, where Democrats sought to leave Coloradans defenseless by limiting the number of bullets a magazine can carry.
A Department of Justice press release announcing the suit said the administration is “alleging that the State [Colorado] unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected standard capacity firearm magazines. This law unconstitutionally infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes.”
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon argued a magazine ban is just Democrats trying to show they’re “good” people by restricting the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of Americans.
“Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at the expense of Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Under my direction, the Division’s Second Amendment Section will continue to defend law-abiding Americans’ rights against unconstitutional restrictions on their right to possess arms, which are owned by tens of millions of their fellow citizens,” Dhillon stated.
The administration also sued Colorado over its so-called “assault weapons ban,” and Dhillon contended there is no chance this law passes muster.
“I think the AR-15 ban is one that really is a kind of low-hanging fruit, because the Supreme Court held in a 9-0 opinion in the Smith and Wesson case that the AR-15 is the most commonly owned and operated rifle in the United States. And so when you add that statistic to the ruling in the Bruen and Heller decisions, which talk about firearms that are in common use and for law-abiding citizens, that leads to the inexorable conclusion that the AR-15 is presumptively legal all over America,” Dhillon declared.
The 2008 Heller and 2022 Bruen decisions make it impossible to let the so-called “assault weapons” ban stand.
In Heller, the court ruled the government couldn’t ban firearms in common use.
“In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller, held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes,” the Justice Department press release announcing the suit read.
There are anywhere from 20 to 24 million AR-15s in America, and that number fits any definition of common use.
In Bruen, the court ruled that any gun control laws had to be consistent with America’s history and tradition of protecting Second Amendment rights.
Conservatives feel confident the administration picked two strong cases to dismantle blue states’ gun control regime, as limiting the number of bullets in a magazine and banning a widely owned firearm don’t fit under either the Heller or the Bruen precedents.
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