The Trump Justice Department is suing Washington, DC over its semiautomatic restrictions, saying it violates the Second Amendment.
MSN reported:
Donald Trump-led US administration is suing the Washington, DC, government over its gun laws, arguing that restrictions on certain semiautomatic firearms violate the Second Amendment rights. The US Department of Justice filed the lawsuit on Monday in the District Court for the District of Columbia, naming the Metropolitan Police Department and outgoing police chief Pamela Smith as defendants.
The case sets up a major legal battle over how far governments can go in regulating individual gun ownership.
"The United States of America brings this lawsuit to protect the rights that have been guaranteed for 234 years and which the Supreme Court has explicitly reaffirmed several times over the last two decades,"the Justice Department said in its filing.
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