The Justice Department is taking a Maryland county to court after it passed a law festooning the county with gun-free zones where weapons are not allowed.
The lawsuit seeks to overturn Montgomery County’s gun control edict, according to a Justice Department news release.
The Justice Department said Bill 23-26 “violates the Second Amendment by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from possessing firearms in daily life.”
The bill makes it illegal to carry a gun within 100 yards of a wide variety of locations “even if the person carrying a firearm is duly licensed and has the express consent of the property owner,” the release said.
“The Second Amendment does not allow local governments to ban law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms in public places as they go about their daily lives,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said.