AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Federal court strikes down Delaware's ban on homemade firearms as unconstitutional
A federal judge in Delaware ruled the state's ban on building and owning so-called "ghost guns" violates the Second Amendment, a decision that forced lawmakers to confront the constitutional cost of a law they championed just four years ago. The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware handed down the opinion in Rigby v. […] The post Federal court strikes down Delaware's ban on homemade firearms as unconstitutional appeared first on American Almanac .
A federal judge in Delaware ruled the state's ban on building and owning so-called "ghost guns" violates the Second Amendment, a decision that forced lawmakers to confront the constitutional cost of a law they championed just four years ago. The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware handed down the opinion in Rigby v. Jennings, finding that Delaware's prohibitions on possessing and manufacturing unserialized firearms cannot stand under the Constitution. The Firearms Policy Coalition, one of the plaintiffs in the case, announced the ruling on X , calling it "a major Second Amendment victory." The case targeted provisions rooted in Delaware's H.B. 125, a bill passed in 2021 that criminalized the possession, sale, and…Open