Federal Judge Strikes Down Infringement on Veteran’s Rights

By Beth Baumann

Second Amendment advocates in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marina Islands (CNMI) are rejoicing. A federal judge just ruled the islands’ restrictions on gun ownership violated the Second Amendment.

The lawsuit was filed by Army Ranger veteran Paul Murphy, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, after his guns were confiscated by CNMI’s Department of Public Safety. The confiscation was part of the Special Act for Firearms Enforcement, which imposed gun control measures on its citizens.

A couple months after Murphy’s semi-automatic rifle, a GLOCK 19 and some ammo were confiscated, he was issued a firearms identification license, allowing him to legally own and posses firearms in CNMI. According to court documents, Murphy claims he never had his guns reissued to him.

Because Murphy is a U.S. citizen and CNMI falls under the United States’ laws, suppressing the Second Amendment violates the Constitution:

“The Second Amendment enshrines an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, such that laws prohibiting the possession of handguns by law-abiding citizens within their homes for self-defense violate that right,” Judge Ramona Mangola wrote. “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms