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Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Newsmax on Tuesday the Trump administration is targeting state and local gun restrictions with a series of lawsuits it hopes will lead to a Supreme Court fight over the Second Amendment.
Appearing on “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE,” Dhillon pointed to the Justice Department’s lawsuits this month against Denver and the state of Colorado — filed a day apart over Denver’s AR-15-style rifle ban and Colorado’s limit on magazines holding more than 15 rounds — as the start of an effort to challenge gun laws jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Both complaints landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and invoke the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen…