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The Justice Department sued Virginia on Wednesday to try to block state Democrats\u2019 new law banning the sale and purchase of so-called assault weapons, including some of the most popular semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n

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Separately, the department sued California over its ban on most Glock-style pistols and its new handgun roster, which further limits the types of guns that can be bought in the state.<\/p>\n

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said both states are violating their residents\u2019 Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department was particularly critical of Virginia\u2019s law, calling it an affront to the state\u2019s history in helping secure the Bill of Rights, which includes the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirginians can be justly proud of their centuries-long tradition of leadership in the cause of liberty. Sadly, however, that tradition was recently besmirched by the Virginia legislature\u2019s enactment of SB749, a statute that infringes law-abiding Virginians\u2019 fundamental right to keep and bear arms and thus violates the Second Amendment,\u201d DOJ said in its lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The law was supposed to take effect this week but has been partially blocked by state judges. The DOJ lawsuit opens a new front in federal court.<\/p>\n

DOJ said the state law purports to outlaw sales of \u201cassault firearms,\u201d though the definition is broad enough to include guns in common circulation and owned by millions of Americans already.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear challenges to similar laws in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois.<\/p>\n

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In California, the feds are taking aim at a law DOJ said bans sales of \u201cvirtually all Glock and Glock-style pistols.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia\u2019s ban on the sale of the most popular handgun in America obviously violates the Second Amendment,\u201d the federal lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s handgun roster also requires that all handguns sold in the state have a magazine safety, which would prevent a magazine-fed handgun from firing if the magazine is detached.<\/p>\n

The state attorney general\u2019s office said California\u2019s strict approach to guns has pushed firearms deaths \u201cto record lows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur office is committed to defending California\u2019s effective and constitutional gun safety laws, including laws that protect the public from the proliferation of machine guns and from unsafe handguns that have not passed consumer safety and testing requirements,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court in its 2022 Bruen decision breathed new life into the Second Amendment, saying that for restrictions to survive constitutional scrutiny, they must be the sort of limits that would have been countenanced in the founding era.<\/p>\n

That set off a new round of challenges to laws restricting who can possess a gun, where they can be carried and what sorts of weapons can be restricted.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday\u2019s two lawsuits fall into that latter category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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