Opinion
This week, NRA filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington in a challenge to Washington’s prohibition on firearms magazines that hold over 10 rounds.
The defendants in the case are a retail firearms dealer and its owner. In 2023, the defendants were issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) by the Washington State Office of the Attorney General due to suspicions that they were selling magazines that hold over 10 rounds, which are prohibited in Washington.
The defendants petitioned for the CID to be set aside and a declaration that the magazine ban violates both the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 24 of the Washington Constitution.
On April 8, 2024, after the CID was withdrawn but replaced with a Consumer Protection Act enforcement action, the trial court held Washington’s magazine ban violative of both the U.S. and Washington Constitutions. But the Supreme Court of the State of Washington granted an emergency stay that same day, which was followed by another order from the Supreme Court Commissioner staying the case.
Now before the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, NRA filed an amicus brief in the case supporting the retail firearms dealer and its owner. The brief argues that Supreme Court precedent forbids prohibitions on common arms, and because over one-hundred million of the prohibited magazines are owned throughout the country, the ban must be held to violate the Second Amendment.
The amicus brief, filed in State of Washington v. Gator’s Custom Guns, Inc., can be read here.
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