Trump DOJ Sues Colorado over Ban of ‘Standard Capacity’ Magazines

On Wednesday, President Trump’s DOJ filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s ban on ammunition magazines which the DOJ described as “standard capacity.”

In 2013, Colorado Democrats passed a ban on magazines holding more than 15 rounds and then-Governor John Hickenlooper (D) signed it into law.

Now the DOJ is targeting the ban and has put out a press release “alleging that the State [Colorado] unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected standard capacity firearm magazines. This law unconstitutionally infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes.”

The release quotes Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, saying:

Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at the expense of Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Under my direction, the Division’s Second Amendment Section will continue to defend law-abiding Americans’ rights against unconstitutional restrictions on their right to possess arms which are owned by tens of millions of their fellow citizens.

Breitbart News reported that Trump’s DOJ also filed a lawsuit against Denver’s “assault weapons” ban on Tuesday, with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche claiming the ban “directly violates the right to bear arms.”

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