Republican-led US states sue to block expanded gun background checks

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 1, 2024 2:12 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago


May 1 (Reuters) - More than two dozen Republican state attorneys general sued the Biden administration on Wednesday to stop a new rule that would require gun dealers to obtain licenses and conduct background checks when selling firearms at gun shows and online.

The lawsuits challenge a rule finalized last month that U.S. Justice Department officials said is aimed at closing the "gun show loophole." Under the rule, those selling weapons at gun shows, other venues and over the internet are subject to the same requirements as gun stores to check the backgrounds of potential buyers. The rule, which has not yet taken effect, will affect tens of thousands of gun sales a year, according to the Biden administration.

President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass legislation requiring universal background checks and banning assault-style rifles, but Republican lawmakers oppose such laws as infringing on the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment gun rights protections. In announcing his state's lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had exceeded its authority in promulgating the new rule.

"With today's lawsuit, it is my great honor to defend our Constitutionally protected freedoms from the out-of-control federal government," he said. Louisiana, Missouri and Utah, along with Gun Owners of America and other gun rights advocacy groups, joined the Texas lawsuit. The case was filed in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, whose only active judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump. The court has become a preferred venue for conservatives challenging Biden administration policies.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-led-us-states-sue-block-expanded-gun-background-checks-2024-05-01/

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From the OP excerpt -

The case was filed in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, whose only active judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump

The RW loons' personal judge and this is apparently all he does.

[Deuxcents]

1. Why? Why sue to do away with some modest protections? Not enough mass murders?

[GB_RN]

2. Ken Fucking Paxton...

Why is it, that whenever there’s a lawsuit filed against the federal government (read: against a Democratic administration), the douchey-est of douchebags, Ken Fucking Paxton (R-Corrupt AND Douchey), is always the motherfucker leading the charge?

Seriously, this cross eyed fuckstick couldn’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag without help, and yet…

Worse still, Texas keeps returning this poo-flinging, flying monkey to office, despite the fact that he’s making a laughing stock out of them.

[Traurigkeit]

4. Ugly bastard and he doesn't look too good either, Ken Paxton

[liberalgunwilltravel]

3. Democrat's message has to be firm and easy to understand

Republicans want to arm criminals. Repeat that over and over again. Or if you want greater penetration the message should be: Republicans want to arm "illegal aliens" and terrorists.

[Novara]

5. Stop and think for a minute

For all of these assholes, dead children are worth whatever money they get from the NRA (which can't be what it used to be with all their criminal financial mismanagement).

For them, dead children are just the price of unfettered gun distribution.

[markodochartaigh]

6. It has been a half century since I was

a gay teen with Asperger's growing up in Amarillo. Obviously I knew that things were not good for me. But a half century later I have found out that about a quarter of our graduating class did not live to 65. And we were the class after the draft ended, so they weren't killed in Southeast Asia. Amarillo doesn’t have any business telling anyone else how to live.