A pair of gun-rights teams have filed a lawsuit in opposition to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to dam enforcement of a brand new state regulation banning so-called “ghost weapons,” within the newest authorized problem of a slew of recent firearms reform measures.
The swimsuit was filed in federal courtroom Monday, when some provisions of the regulation took impact, by three Colorado gun house owners and by the Nationwide Affiliation for Gun Rights and Rocky Mountain Gun House owners. It alleges that the regulation violates the Second Modification and doesn’t comport with America’s historical past of firearms and gun laws.
Handed by the state legislature and signed into regulation in June, the law makes it a misdemeanor to own, promote or create unserialized weapons and gun components. The gun house owners and teams search an instantaneous maintain on the regulation and a wider declaration that the ban is unconstitutional.
As Colorado voters embrace gun reform and Democrats train full management over the Capitol, conservative opponents more and more have turned to the courts to dam new firearms legal guidelines. The idea of this newest problem — that the ghost gun ban doesn’t match with the nation’s historic regulation of firearms — attracts on a litmus check for firearm reform that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom established final yr.
Rocky Mountain Gun House owners has used the identical argument because it seeks to dam two different latest gun reform legal guidelines from going into impact.
The group was successful in stopping one measure that requires that gun purchasers be at the least 21 years previous. The opposite, requiring a minimal three-day ready interval between shopping for and taking possession of a gun, was upheld by a federal choose in November.
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