Another day, another win in the ongoing and fierce battle to protect Second Amendment rights from those who would destroy them.
After Florida lawmakers enacted a 3-day waiting period for weapons purchases in 2018, the legal struggle began. But on Friday, June 5, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that a settlement had been reached.
“Every government office, including mine, exists to protect your God-given rights as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,” Uthmeier posted on X. “That’s why we’re settling a landmark federal case that declared Florida’s 3-day firearm purchase waiting period unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.”
Delaying taking possession of a firearm after successful background check ruled unconstitutional
Chief Prosecutor Brian Kramer told Alachua County authorities that the settlement in Dunn v. Glass meant sweeping changes for those seeking to legally acquire a firearm.
He declared that the “Attorney General and other defendants have agreed to the entry of a judgment declaring unconstitutional Florida’s statutory and constitutional waiting period provisions to the extent they require a firearm to be held beyond the time necessary to complete a background check.”
Such impediments do not withstand honest legal or judicial scrutiny
Kramer announced that his office will also not enforce Alachua County’s 5-day waiting period for handgun purchases enacted in recent years.
He added that such restrictions “cannot be justified under the history-tradition analysis required by the United States Supreme Court’s modern-day Second Amendment jurisprudence.”
The contentious law was passed amid the legal reaction in 2018 to the Parkland massacre. In their rush to do something, anything, lawmakers who normally support the Second Amendment went along with infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.
It wasn’t long before buyer’s remorse set in, and last week’s announcement by the AG’s office was the result of a protracted legal fight for Florida citizens’ gun rights.
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