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The Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division sued Virginia Wednesday, claiming a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms violated the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

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Since Thursday, state judges in Virginia\u2019s Lancaster County\u00a0and\u00a0Washington County issued preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement of a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms that Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed into law on May 14. In addition to the ban on the semi-automatic firearms, SB749 also would outlaw standard-capacity magazines, setting an arbitrary limit of 15 rounds that was slated to take effect Wednesday prior to the injunctions. (RELATED: Dem Governor\u2019s Plan To Ban Guns Blows Up In Her Face)
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\u201cSB749 infringes the right of law-abiding Virginians to purchase and sell AR-15 style rifles and therefore violates the Second Amendment,\u201d the filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia says. \u201cThus, Defendants have acted and will continue to act in blatant disregard of the constitutional rights of the citizens of Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the brief, the Civil Rights Division cited the dissent\u00a0of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas to the 2000 Supreme Court decision in Stenberg v. Carhart, in which he wrote that the term \u201cassault weapons\u201d is a euphemism that gun-control advocates use to gain support for banning modern semi-automatic firearms.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court\u00a0\u00a0writs of certiorari in Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois and Grant v. Higgins, involving bans similar to the one Spanberger signed that were imposed by Cook County, Illinois, (which includes Chicago) and Connecticut, consolidating the cases for hearing in its term starting in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pleasant change of pace to have a federal administration that at least in part has shown itself to be responsive to the legal needs of gun owners,\u201d Second Amendment Foundation Senior Director of Legal Operations William Sack told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cWe fully support the DOJ getting in the fight and pulling in the direction of liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Under the Supreme Court\u2019s rulings in\u00a0Heller\u00a0and\u00a0Bruen, firearms in common use for lawful purposes fall under the Second Amendment\u2019s protection.\u00a0The National Shooting Sports Foundation\u00a0\u00a0in\u00a0January\u00a0that over 32 million \u201cmodern sporting rifles\u201d were in circulation, and that 2.8 million such rifles were sold in 2000. (RELATED: Supreme Court Takes Up Major Semiautomatic Firearms Case)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In an\u00a0article\u00a0published May 13, The New York Times\u00a0noted\u00a0that both the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle (which bears a resemblance to the M16 and M4 select-fire weapons used by the U.S. military) and semiautomatic rifles with cosmetic features or accessories that make them look like fully-automatic AK-47s are popular firearms owned by millions of civilians.<\/p>\n

Democratic Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.<\/p>\n

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