The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced it is filing a lawsuit against Denver, Colorado, over the city’s ban on AR-15-style rifles with standard-capacity magazines, after the city’s mayor refused to repeal the ban a day prior.
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the DOJ said the city’s ban on AR-15-style firearms and other firearms, which local officials term “assault weapons,” goes against the Constitution’s Second Amendment and fails to adhere to a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that bolstered the right for Americans to carry and obtain guns.
