Trump administration sues DC over its gun laws

[eddiememphis]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/polit...c-gun-laws-hnk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7v4pg2edno

"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 states.

The Justice Department asserts that the District is imposing unconstitutional bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons the administration says are legal to posses under the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller precedent

"Specifically, the District denies law-abiding citizens the ability to register a wide variety of commonly used semi-automatic firearms, such as the Colt AR-15 series rifles, which is among the most popular of firearms in America, and a variety of other semi-automatic rifles and pistols that are in common use," Justice Department lawyers write.