By Kayleigh Hamilton
Gun grabbers are having nightmares about what could be coming next.
Their precious “assault weapons bans” may be finished forever.
And one important court ruling will decide everything.
Massachusetts is one of the least gun-owning states in America. Even in the more Republican-leaning pockets of the state, very few people own guns.
That’s why there is a high tolerance in Massachusetts for gun-grabbing politicians who have no respect for the Second Amendment.
In 1998, Massachusetts passed a so-called “assault weapons ban” modeled on the national law that was in place at the time.
A few years later, Mitt Romney, who was governor at the time, made this ban permanent, saying: “Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
Since then, guns like AR-15s that are popular with gun owners across the nation have been off-limits to the few gun owners in Massachusetts.
But the National Association for Gun Rights is challenging that law and attempting to reverse this attack on the Second Amendment launched by Massachusetts lawmakers.
And while one liberal judge threw the lawsuit out, they are appealing to a higher court, and may eventually end up at the Supreme Court.
According to the Union Leader, “A national gun owners advocacy group has vowed to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that Massachusetts’ assault weapons ban is constitutional.
“Bay State resident Joseph Capen and the National Association for Gun Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group, challenged the law banning the sale and possession of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, arguing that it burdens their constitutional right to keep and bear arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.”
The article then goes on to point out that the Supreme Court has a recent track record of handing down pro-gun rulings, and they may have an opportunity here to put out another one.
“They filed the lawsuit in September 2022, months after the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in the landmark Bruen case, requiring states to fashion gun laws in line with the history and tradition of the Second Amendment.
“Capen alleges that, if it weren’t for the ban, he would purchase certain firearms and magazines ‘to keep in his home for self-defense and other lawful purposes.’”
“Hannah Hill, NAGR’s director of legal affairs, indicated in a social media post Friday that the group will be appealing the decision to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in the new year.”
The Court of Appeals is the next step on the way to the Supreme Court, where NAGR is hoping this case will eventually end up.
If the Supreme Court issues a broad ruling against “assault weapons bans,” it would take away the ability of liberal-leaning states all across America to ban these popular guns.
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to strike perhaps the biggest win ever for gun owners, and the Second Amendment is hanging in the balance.