BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Modification Basis has submitted a reply temporary to the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit in its effort to acquire a preliminary injunction in opposition to the Connecticut ban on so-called “assault weapons” in a case filed in September 2022. The case is named Grant v. Lamont.
SAF is joined by the Connecticut Residents Protection League and three personal residents, Michael Stiefel, Jennifer Hamilton and Eddie Grant, Jr.,. for whom the case is known as. They’re represented by attorneys Doug Dubitsky of North Windham, Craig L. Atkinson of Harwinton and Craig Fishbein of Wallingford, all in Connecticut.
“We’re asking the Court docket of Appeals to reverse a district court docket ruling which denied our preliminary injunction request and remand the case again to the district court docket for motion in compliance with the Supreme Court docket’s tips within the 2022 Bruen ruling,” defined SAF Government Director Adam Kraut. “The state desires this case selected uncooked emotion somewhat than the rule of legislation as outlined by the Supreme Court docket, which did away with ‘curiosity balancing’ as a basis for ruling on Second Modification-related instances.”
“The 2022 Bruen determination expressly forbids courts from contemplating sensationalized portrayals of firearms when contemplating whether or not the Second Modification protects their possession,” famous SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The state has erroneously described fashionable semiautomatic rifles as ‘weapons of battle,’ which is solely not true.
“We’re not asking the court docket to acknowledge a brand new constitutional proper,” Gottlieb added. “All we’re asking is that the court docket faithfully apply present precedent and acknowledge a proper Connecticut residents have all the time possessed underneath the structure. In any case, Connecticut is the ‘Structure State.’”
