CCRKBA: ‘JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST DENVER GUN BAN LONG OVERDUE’
BELLEVUE, WA – The Justice Department’s lawsuit against the City of Denver, Colorado’s long-standing ban
on so-called “assault weapons” is long overdue, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
said.
“The time has come for local governments to get a reality check about infringing on the Second Amendment
rights of their constituents,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “For too long, state legislatures, county
councils and city governments have whittled away at the right of their citizens to keep and bear arms, and
they’ve continued doing it because past Justice Departments and administrations never bothered to intervene.
“But now we’ve got leadership at the DOJ which recognizes the Second Amendment as a cornerstone of the
constitution,” he added, “and they are determined to reverse years of complacency, if not outright hostility, from
previous attorneys general and White House administrations. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon obviously mean what they say about protecting the Second
Amendment.
“Denver Mayor Mike Johnston must have thought he could bluster his way through this, but less than 24 hours
after telling the DOJ ‘Hell, no,’ he is now facing a federal lawsuit filed by people who are not kidding around,”
Gottlieb stated. “We’re hoping the legal action against Denver is a signal to other anti-gun governments that
erosion of Second Amendment rights is finished.
“Last year at about this time,” he recalled, “the Citizens Committee recommended DOJ action against
restrictive, unconstitutional gun control laws in a dozen different states. Beleaguered gun owners in those states
have waited for action. Let’s hope Blanche, Dhillon and the ‘new’ Justice Department gets busy.
“Let’s also hope the Denver case gets fast-tracked,” Gottlieb said. “It is important that the efforts of gun
prohibitionists are quickly and permanently derailed by federal court rulings with teeth. Our congratulations to
the Justice Department for finally taking action.”
