Videos tagged with Judge Lance Walker

This video discusses a significant Second Amendment victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where Biden-appointed judges denied Maine's Attorney General's motion to stay a preliminary injunction against a 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases. The court found that the state did not make a strong enough showing to overturn the lower court's decision, which had preliminarily enjoined the law based on a likely Second Amendment violation under the Bruen standard. The speaker, Mark W. Smith, a Constitutional Attorney and 'Top Voice of 2A', highlights the rarity of such a win in the typically anti-gun First Circuit.

A federal district court in Maine has granted a preliminary injunction against the state's 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases. Judge Lance Walker ruled that the waiting period violates the Second Amendment, finding that the right to acquire firearms is essential to the right to keep and bear arms. The decision emphasizes that the government must demonstrate historical legal analogues to justify such restrictions, a burden it failed to meet.