The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) has initiated an online petition urging Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi to direct her recently announced “Second Amendment Task Force” towards investigating restrictive gun control laws in a dozen states across the country.
The gun rights organization is calling for these investigations to potentially lead to legal challenges, specifically requesting that AG Bondi “ultimately seek injunctions and/or restraining orders against any and all state laws and local regulations which are determined to infringe and/or impair the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment.”
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CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb stated the petition serves to demonstrate broad public backing for the group’s request.
The CCRKBA wants Bondi’s Task Force to scrutinize laws in twelve states they have dubbed the “Dirty Dozen”: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Gottlieb highlighted significant public interest following the initial request for investigations. “Response to our original request to Attorney General Bondi for 2A Task Force investigations in the states we suggested has been stunning,” he said, citing high viewership numbers (over 54,000 and 56,000 respectively) and substantial engagement (nearly 1,500 comments) on articles covering the request at outlets like Washington Gun Law and Guns & Gadgets.
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“Clearly,” Gottlieb continued, “embattled gun owners in the ‘Dirty Dozen’ states are crying out for relief from a pattern of penalization by state governments for crimes they didn’t commit.” He added that these gun owners are encouraged by the formation of Bondi’s Task Force and that the CCRKBA’s petition offers “a platform by which they can make their case with the loudest, unified voice.”
The petition underscores the CCRKBA’s view that challenges are necessary, stating that “legislative attacks on our Second Amendment rights will continue unabated unless and until they are legally challenged.”
Gottlieb believes action from the Task Force, even focused on a single state from their list, could have wider implications.
“A Task Force investigation of even one of the states on the ‘Dirty Dozen’ list would send a legal shot across the bow of lawmakers in all of those states to cool their jets where restrictive gun control is concerned,” he asserted. “After years of incremental gun rights erosion by anti-gun politicians, the time has come to put them on the defensive and reveal just how constitutionally repugnant their gun prohibition crusade has become.”
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