FPC press release<\/a>.<\/p>\nWILMINGTON, DE (September 23, 2022) \u2013 Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that United States District Judge Maryellen Noreika issued an order enjoining Delaware\u2019s bans on self-manufacturing and possession of home-built firearms in its Rigby v. Jennings lawsuit. The opinion and order can be viewed at FPCLaw.org.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThese statutes burden constitutionally protected conduct because possession of firearms and firearm frames and receivers is within the scope of the Second Amendment\u2019s right to \u2018keep and bear Arms\u2019 and Defendant has not shown that these firearms and components are not commonly owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,\u201d wrote Judge Noreika in her opinion. \u201cFurther, Defendant has offered no evidence that these statutes are consistent with the nation\u2019s history of firearm regulation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThe Court went on to hold that \u201cthe right to keep and bear arms implies a corresponding right to manufacture arms. Indeed, the right to keep and bear arms would be meaningless if no individual or entity could manufacture a firearm. Thus, if possessing untraceable firearms is protected by the Second Amendment, then so too is manufacturing them.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe Court\u2019s Order states in pertinent part that: \u201cDefendant [Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings], her officers, agents, servants, employees, and all persons in active concert or participation with her, and all persons who have notice of the injunction are preliminarily enjoined from enforcing 11 Del. C. \u00a7 1459A(b); 11 Del. C. \u00a7 1463(a); 11 Del. C. \u00a7 1463(c)(1) and from enforcing 11 Del. C. 1463(b) to the extent that the Court has found it likely unconstitutional (i.e. the statute\u2019s provisions that bar the manufacturing and assembly of untraceable firearms, but not the prohibitions against distributing untraceable firearms).\u201d The Order issued today further denied the State\u2019s motion to dismiss in its entirety.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThe self-manufacture of arms is deeply rooted in American history,\u201d said FPC Law\u2019s Director of Constitutional Studies, Joseph Greenlee. \u201cIt has been a celebrated tradition since the earliest colonial days, it helped save America\u2019s war for Independence, it was essential to western expansion, and it has led to many of the most innovative technological breakthroughs in our nation\u2019s history. We are pleased that the court recognized this essential element of the right to keep and bear arms and will continue to fiercely advocate for its protection.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cYet another Court has recognized the expansive natural and individual right that is protected by the Second Amendment\u2013in this case, the individual right to manufacture one\u2019s own self-defense tools,\u201d said Cody J. Wisniewski, FPC\u2019s Senior Attorney for Constitutional Litigation. \u201cFPC has notched another post-Bruen win, not only demonstrating how important the Supreme Court\u2019s Bruen decision is, but further demonstrating that FPC has the most effective and expansive program dedicated to fighting for individual\u2019s Second Amendment protected rights in courtrooms across the nation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cLimiting the means by which peaceable people acquire arms is about one thing: the unconstitutional and immoral monopolization of power,\u201d said FPC Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. \u201cThe state is not entitled to cut off access to self-manufacturing of arms under the Second Amendment, period.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThis decision marks the first-ever federal Second Amendment decision upholding the fundamental right to self-manufacture arms. FPC will continue to aggressively litigate to protect and restore the right to self-manufacture arms in this and cases throughout the United States, including VanDerStock v. ATF, Renna v. Bonta, Palmer v. Sisolak, Fahr v. San Diego, and others.<\/em><\/p>\nNow bring that to Illinois and the handful of other states that have enacted so-called \u2018ghost gun\u2019 bans.<\/p>\n
\n
\nNext Post Coming Soon…\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden holding an 80% pistol frame (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster) Next Post Coming Soon…\u25b6 The Firearm Policy Coalition has a lot of legal actions currently in progress. And on Friday afternoon, they won an important round in a significant case. US District Court Judge\u00a0Maryellen Norieka issued and order blocking enforcement of Delaware\u2019s ban on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Biden](\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22101695827632-696x464.jpg\" "\\"Biden")
![\"Biden](\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22101695827632-scaled.jpg\" "\\"Biden")