As U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sets the course of action for the Justice Department’s newly-announced “Second Amendment Task Force,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has suggested in a letter that she unleash the new group on a dozen Democrat-controlled states which have adopted extremely restrictive gun control laws.
In his letter to Bondi, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb writes, “I would like to suggest that among the Task Force’s priorities might be to examine the patterns of egregious Second Amendment violations in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. All of these states have adopted laws in recent years which have essentially relegated Second Amendment rights to the level of government-regulated privileges.”
“The time has come,” Gottlieb said, “to put the anti-rights leadership in these states on notice that their crusade to destroy the individual rights protected by the Second Amendment is finished. On behalf of our members and supporters, we’re hopeful Attorney General Bondi brings the full force of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division against these Draconian gun control laws wherever they have been enacted.
“In our opinion, special attention should be paid to Washington, Oregon and California,” he observed, “where lawmakers have been essentially working off an agenda set by the gun prohibition lobby. Such impediments as requiring permits to purchase in order to exercise a fundamental right, creating large areas where the legal carrying of firearms is prohibited, mandatory training and testing—which is tantamount to a literacy test—are deliberate impairments created to discourage citizens from exercising their rights.
“In the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling, radical gun prohibitionists have only doubled down in their culture war against law-abiding gun owners and the Second Amendment,” he continued. “Their efforts amount to deprivation of rights under color of law, and this scenario cannot be allowed to continue. It is time to put an end to this nonsense and remind these zealots that the Bill of Rights is not a menu from which we can pick and choose which parts we want while throwing other parts in the trash.
“We have offered to provide any input or assistance Attorney General Bondi and the Second Amendment Task Force may need,” Gottlieb said.
Delaware needs to be on that list too. Salty weapon ban more restrictive than CA’s, mag capacity limit (with exceptions and exceptions to those exceptions), handgun purchase permit, no suppressors or short-barreled shotguns, an onerous and privacy-invading concealed carry permit application, and a Dem supermajority that laughs at rights and rubber-stamps anything they want. They even banned threaded barrels on pistols just so we’re not tempted by the suppressors we can’t put on them. It’s ridiculous.