Colorado allows individual communities to ban so-called assault weapons. The fact that this is literally the most idiotic way to ban a category of firearm is irrelevant–they’re all stupid, but there are varying degrees of stupid.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners have been putting out the individual fires as they pop up, filing lawsuits against each community that enacts such a law.
So far, so good. It’s annoying and expensive for gun rights groups, but it’s doable.
Except now a judge wants the organization to provide evidence of something that should be pretty obvious.
The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit regarding various Boulder County assault weapon bans ordered Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the National Association for Gun Rights to provide further evidence or risk having the case thrown out.
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In a document filed Monday, Federal Judge Nina Wang wrote that the plaintiffs, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, failed to present sufficient evidence that the ordinances prohibit them from their current and future conduct, and cause direct injury. Wang stated that the plaintiff’s provided no evidence that show the ordinances “make it difficult or impossible for the organizations to fulfill any of their essential goals or purposes.”
The ordinances ban people in the county from the “manufacture, import, purchase, sell or transfer” of any assault weapons or large capacity magazines. Rocky Mountain Gun Owners conceded that the ordinance does not necessarily prohibit the possession of assault weapons, according to the order. […]
— Read More: bearingarms.com
