04-09-2024, 03:45 AM
Lemon Drop wrote:
Here is AG Ferguson's response:
https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-release...ustom-guns
And Washington's Supreme Court has issued an emergency stay. The ban remains in place.
This is a state case. 2 earlier federal cases failed to overturn the ban.
and state's constitution says "SECTION 24 RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired," and we all know impaired means diminished, don't we?
https://law.justia.com/constitution/wash...ion-1.html
SCOTUS is in conference this Friday, and there are LOTS of lawsuits about hardware bans and sensitive places among other things just begging for cert. In the Illinois bans alone, 28 State AGs are begging SCOTUS to put these issues to rest because inferior courts are ignoring SCOTUS rulings. And numerous law enforcement agencies have spoken up, as they have no desire to uphold unconstitutional laws. Lots of Amicus briefs have been filed.
4 different circuits aren't even following their own rules about procedures in order to accomplish their goal.