By: Anthony Morelli
One liberal judge pulled an outrageous stunt in an attack on the Second Amendment.
A gun group was simply trying to do their job and protect the freedom to own guns.
But this judge made a horrible declaration against them that sparked outrage.
Although the state of Colorado did not pass a so-called “assault weapons” ban like many Democrats in the state wanted, they still allow local municipalities to ban such guns.
This has put Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the leading gun organization in the state, in the position to have to go town-by-town and city-by-city in an effort to file lawsuits against these bans.
While this has been successful in some cases, in other cases they run into judges who are simply hostile to the Second Amendment and don’t care whether the laws are constitutional or not.
This apparently was the case with one judge named Nina Wang who asked for a ridiculous piece of evidence that should be plainly obvious to everybody.
She wants them to provide proof that a law that prevents any conceivable way of obtaining a so-called “assault weapon” is actually a ban on “assault weapons.”
And she may end up throwing the case out because of a sneaky loophole in the law.
According to Bearing Arms, “Rocky Mountain Gun Owners have been putting out the individual fires as they pop up, filing lawsuits against each community that enacts such a law.”
“Except now a judge wants the organization to provide evidence of something that should be pretty obvious.”
“I’m at a complete loss here, because the ban on making, purchasing, selling, transferring, or importing a so-called assault weapon would suggest that while you might be able to legally possess a gun in the city, there’s no physical way for you to get one lawfully.”
It seems that this particular ordinance follows a recent tactic that the gun control lobby has been employing, which is to not technically “ban” guns but to make them literally impossible to get.
Wang, who is clearly friendly to the gun control cause, is using such a loophole in the law as an excuse to throw out RMGO’s lawsuit.
The article continues, “You can’t even lawfully buy it outside the city and then bring it home because that would constitute importing one.”
“It seems kind of obvious how Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and its members are impacted here.”
“Yet even if we could somehow find a way to lawfully get an AR-15 while living in Boulder County, I have to wonder how the judge is managing to completely ignore Bruen here. Is there a historic analog for a geographic prohibition on making, buying, selling, or just bringing home a category of a firearm from the time of the nation’s founding?”
The judge in this case is obviously very unfriendly to the Second Amendment and looking for any reason to allow restrictions on guns.
It appears that Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is going to have to take this to a higher court and hope that a more reasonable judge comes to a different conclusion.