BREAKING: Trump Administration Takes Deep-Blue City To Court Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Gun Ban

Despite the Second Amendment being positioned so high on the list of guaranteed rights, leftist politicians continuously look for loopholes through which they can cram their anti-gun agenda.

But, at least while President Donald Trump is in office, there’s someone in D.C. keeping an eye on things.

And as Fox News reported, the latest evidence of that is playing out in Denver this week:

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver, Colorado, “alleging that the City unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles.”

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“These laws unconstitutionally infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes,” according to the Justice Department.

“The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “Denver’s ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens nationwide.”

News about the lawsuit is still breaking as of this writing, but the development is already gaining some traction on social media:

@DAGToddBlanche, all gun laws are in violation of the Constitution! "We the people" should not have to sue for every law enacted to be repealed. The Constitution is clear that the government does not have the legal authority to infringe on our gun rights! Any of them!! @NRA

— Join_or_Die (@Montero1790) May 5, 2026

That's great, Virginia has just passed several blatantly unconstitutional gun laws. Can you focus on them please.

— The Darkest Expanse (@VEventHorizonV) May 5, 2026

This is nice but what about Washington state and all the unconstitutional bans they have done, why is this just being done selectively? The constitution is nation wide not just certain states.

— Randy Carlson (@CptnSpaulding71) May 5, 2026

Here’s what the Justice Department included in its press release on the latest action:

“I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our new Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding Americans from restrictions such as those we are challenging in these cases,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Law-abiding Americans, regardless of what city or state they reside in, should not have to live under threat of criminal sanction just for exercising their Second Amendment right to possess arms which are owned by tens of millions of their fellow citizens.”

In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller, held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes.

Here’s some deeper coverage of the underlying dispute: