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Second lawsuit filed challenging federal ban on new machine guns

Monday, November 17, 2014 15:52
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While federal law allows older (pre-May, 1986) machine guns to be purchased if registered and taxed, a  lawsuit filed Nov. 14 claims Congress has no authority to ban new ones, and that doing so violates the Second Amendment.

A complaint for declarative and injunctive relief was filed Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiff Ryan S. Watson, acting individually and as trustee of the Watson Family Gun Trust, is suing Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones in their official capacities for administering, executing and enforcing “statutory and regulatory provisions [that] generally act as an unlawful de facto ban on the transfer or possession of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986.”

More @ Examiner


Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/11/second-lawsuit-filed-challenging.html

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