When it comes to lawsuits having to do with firearms, the Department of Justice has had more than its fair share of absolutely evil lawsuits.
I say evil because DOJ lawsuits in the past were often aimed at ways to curtail and (ideally) eliminate yours and my ability to exercise our Second Amendment rights. Knowing how legal gun ownership makes us safer, I think that it’s safe to say that any lawsuit that seeks to implement gun control either directly or indirectly is evil.
Fortunately, in some ways, though (at least currently), how the DOJ treats gun owners seems to be heavily impacted by who is in the White House.
Under Obama, for example, then-Attorney General Eric Holder found ways to put firearms in the hands of drug cartels which were then used to murder a Border Patrol agent.
And under Obama and Biden both, the DOJ worked to keep guns out of our hands.
(Just to be clear: they put guns in the hands of criminals but worked to disarm you and me.)
Under Donald Trump, though, we’re seeing some different things coming our way via the DOJ, and many of them look really good. Jack Phillips writes,
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed two separate lawsuits against the states of Virginia and California over their recently created laws that the department alleges present an unconstitutional ban on common firearms.
I have to say that’s a beautiful thing. Phillips continues:
In its complaint filed on July 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the DOJ stated that Virginia’s law effectively criminalizes the purchase of AR-15-style rifles, which it stated are the most popular rifles in the country. The department noted that tens of millions of Americans across the country own the semi-automatic rifles.
Also:
Also on July 1, the DOJ filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California challenging a “Glock ban” in California that prohibits the purchase of handguns made by Glock or firearms with similar firing mechanisms, which the DOJ stated would further restrict the types of handguns that can be lawfully owned in the state.
Now, ideally, both of these lawsuits against gun control laws in those states will be successful, but, obviously, we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the end.
I have to say that I do appreciate seeing an administration that is actually trying to do the right thing by the American people when it comes to their Second Amendment rights. It’s about time that someone in the White House did.
