One doesn’t have to look very far to see that activist lawfare that intentionally distorts the law’s meaning and intent remains a popular way for the far left to pursue its agenda of ending civilian gun ownership in America.
“The second Bruen came down, there was the starting gun for a sprint, for which we have not stopped yet,” Bill Sack, director of legal operations for SAF told Stateline. “Stuff is ripe for a fresh challenge.”
It the latest salvo of lawfare launched against a lawful firearm manufacturer, New Jersey’s enthusiastically hoplophobic Attorney General, Matt Platkin, announced yesterday that he had filed suit against GLOCK for…making guns.
AG James aconvinced Judge Joel Cohen to mandate governance and compliance measures that go far beyond any “oversight” that was exercised during the 30-year tenure of Wayne LaPierre and his band of sycophants.
In the grand tradition of paying public relations people to make virtually any noteworthy event sound like a good thing, both the Attorney General and the NRA are painting the final outcome of this years-long epic battle as a win.
When a juror votes “not guilty” because they don’t agree with the law in question or they believe the defendant is being unjustly prosecuted, the prosecution, the judge and sometimes the media lose their collective mind.
The deputy sheriff told school officials that J.S. had committed no crime by possessing spent shell casings. The youth, the deputy said, had done nothing wrong.
Mexico’s counsel was the architect of many of the lawsuits that were brought before the PLCAA. And he has been quite candid that this lawsuit is yet another effort to get around the Second Amendment and this Court’s decisions in Heller and Bruen.
While putting record numbers of FFLs out of business for minor bookkeeping errors or non-willful violations, the president has shown he is just fine with going easy on privileged easy street and serious willful violators instead.
The problem with this strategy is it would require some regulatory and legal 4D chess. It isn’t clear that the Trump 2.0 administration would be willing or capable of playing at that level.
