DOJ sues Virginia over AR-15 ban

Just The News ^ | 1 July 2026 | Ben Whedon

[fella]

The Department of Justice on Wednesday sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over its recently approved assault weapons ban, asserting that the Second Amendment barred such restrictions.

Virginia is one of a handful of states that have enacted such restrictions on the commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.

[fella]

USC-18 sections 241 and 242,

have clearly been violated by all involved in enacting this gun ban.

[Big Red Badger]

It this Point in Time....
AR Stands For ‘The American Rifle!’
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It’s SIXTY Years Old !

[mrmeyer]

That’s cute but they should be purple walking people for this, 18 U.S.C. § 242: Criminal Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Antii-gun radical democrats are doing exactly what we saw coming back in the 1960s. Moving on to ban everything they can. Pretending to stop crime without actually stopping crime.
In 1941, after seeing how the Nazis used firearm registration forms to seize privately owned guns in occupied France, The US Congress passed a resolution to NEVER allow registration of firearms in the USA.
The democrats have been trying to get guns registered since 1962 when Thomas J. Dodd and Emanual Cellar called for the registration of Handgun ONLY! “Rifles will not be affected!”
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1962-Call for Handgun registration ONLY! “Rifles will not be affected”.
1963-Call for registration of All guns and a ban on 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles!
1968-Got a ban on small foreign handguns and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1971 Call for Ban on small American handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1975 Call for Ban on all handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1981 Actress Lee Grant on ABC’s Good Morning America pokes holes in the air and yells...
“THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984 They came for the rifles.
1994 Ten year “ban” on “a-s-s-ault rifles”.
2000 Call to ban single shot .50 cal rifles.
Now, in 2025 they are back to the 1964 demands for MORE GUN CONTROL on COMMON 4- shot BOLT ACTION RIFLES. (Charlie Kirk shooting)
Now it is a ban on parts for firearms.
Rest assured if they get a ban on semi-auto rifles, they will be back for handguns , and more and more.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You really need to read the highly suppressed and now out of print 1982 Senate report on the RKBA. I have a paper copy from the US Government printing office.

Here is an on line copy.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html

“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”

19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).

“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”

17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).

“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”

18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).

“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”

19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).

“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”

And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..

Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html