The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging the state’s “assault weapons” ban.
The Firearms Policy Coalition, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and a number of individual private citizens constitute the other Plaintiffs in the case.
In the suit, Bianchi, et al. v. Frosh, et al, Plaintiff’s claim Maryland’s prohibition against “assault weapons” is effectively a ban on “common semiautomatic firearms.”
Plaintiff’s contend: “The State of Maryland’s laws, regulations, policies, practices, and customs individually and collectively deny millions of individuals who reside in Maryland, including Plaintiffs, their members and supporters, and others like them, their fundamental, individual right to keep and bear common arms.”
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb commented on the suit, saying:
Maryland has instituted laws that ban scores of firearms simply because they look like other guns, and that cannot be allowed to stand. As we note in the lawsuit, the right to keep and bear arms includes, but is not limited to, the right of individuals to acquire, transport, possess, purchase, and receive common firearms for all lawful purposes, including self-defense. Maryland bans such firearms and there is no basis for such a ban, so we’re taking the state to court.
Would someone PLEASE explain what an assult weapon is to me.
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An assault weapon is one that is so scary looking that the little snowflake people melt when they see pictures of one.