Fed. Judge Denies Mass. A.G. Request to Stall Gun Rights Lawsuit

Liberty Park Press ^ | 11 March, 2019 | Dave Workman

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A federal court has ruled that a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healeys 2016 “crackdown” on so-called “copycat assault weapons” can continue. (Screen snip, YouTube, Comcast Newsmakers)

A U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts has denied a request from anti-gun state Attorney General Maura Healey to delay a lawsuit challenging her efforts to stop sales of so-called “copycat assault weapons” in what amounts to a victory for the four firearms retailers involved in the lawsuit, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

According to the Worcester Telegram, U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman’s eight-page ruling rejected Healey’s contention that the Worcester lawsuit should be delayed until a similar lawsuit in Suffolk County wraps up. But Judge Hillman stated that if this trial were to be delayed, “it might only further delay litigation that has already lasted almost two and a half years.”

In 2016, according to the newspaper and the NSSF, Healey began a “crackdown” on so-called “copycat” semi-autos. In the process, she allegedly re-defined “assault weapons” and overstepped her legal authority.

“The actions of Attorney General Healy in 2016 were unconstitutional, leaving firearms retailers in Massachusetts unable to determine the meaning or scope of the Enforcement Notice and subsequent explanations,” NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence Keane asserted in a prepared statement. “Because criminal penalties can result due to her unilateral reinterpretation of a state statute done without administrative process or input from affected parties, her office exceeded its lawful authority and retailers were deprived of their due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.”

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Mara Healy loves to use her power to infringe on other people's rights.

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What about protections under the 2nd amendment also?

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It’s Congress’s 14th Amendment (14A) duty to make and enforce penal laws that discourage state actors like Mass. A.G. from taking actions to weaken rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, 2nd Amendment protections in this example.

From the 14th Amendment:

• "Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

• "Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

But we may be seeing corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers letting the courts legislate punitive remedies to state abridgment of enumerated rights from the bench so that lawmakers can keep their voting records clean and get reelected.

Insights welcome.

This is why patriots need to support PDJT by electing new patriot lawmakers in 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s MAGA, but will also promise to do its 14A duty to strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights from abridgment by state actors.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA!