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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: libertybele on December 02, 2022, 03:31:45 pm
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'Blatantly unconstitutional': Strict gun control law faces new NRA-backed legal challenge
One of the strictest gun control laws in the nation is facing a new National Rifle Association-backed legal challenge as a federal judge prepares to decide whether to delay the measure's implementation.
Two former Oregon lawmakers, a sporting goods store, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Oregon State Shooting Association — the NRA's state affiliate — filed the lawsuit Thursday, arguing the voter-approved Measure 114 places "severe and unprecedented burdens" on those seeking to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
"Oregon’s Measure 114 is blatantly unconstitutional," Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF’s senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement provided to Fox News. "The right to keep and bear arms begins with the ability of law-abiding citizens to be able to obtain a firearm through a lawful purchase at a firearm retailer."...............
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blatantly-unconstitutional-strict-gun-control-law-faces-new-nra-backed-legal-challenge
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Karin Johanna Immergut, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon,
Born:
December 22, 1960, New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party:
Democratic (Before 1998), Independent (1998–2003), Republican (2003–present)
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Imagine that, the NRA actually doing something, other than buying $600 suits.
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This is such a stinker of a law that clearly the state wasn’t ready to implement that the State’s Attorneys Office is asking the Federal judge to put a temporary stay on implementation of the law but not to strike down the law on its merits.
**nononono*