WHEREAS the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects enshrines the individual right to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed, and

WHEREAS the individual right to bear arms is enumerated and protected by individual state constitutions, and

WHEREAS the Second Amendment was incorporated to the states by the U.S. Supreme Court via the 14th Amendment in its landmark 2010 ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, thus bringing the authority of the federal constitution to bear on the states, and

WHEREAS twelve states, currently identified by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and popularized on social media as the “Dirty Dozen” for their blatant and egregious legislative efforts to restrict the firearm rights protected by state and federal constitutions, and

WHEREAS those states have been alphabetically identified as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington, and

WHEREAS the Attorney General has created a “Second Amendment Task Force” within the Department of Justice “to implement Executive Order 14206 and protect the fundamental right secured by the Second Amendment” by “developing and executing strategies to use litigation and policy to advance, protect, and promote compliance with the Second Amendment,” and

WHEREAS the legislative attacks on our Second Amendment rights will continue unabated unless and until they are legally challenged, therefore

We, the undersigned citizens of the United States respectfully urge the Attorney General and the 2A Task Force to launch constitutional investigations in each of the 12 states listed above, to ultimately seek injunctions and/or restraining orders against any and all state laws and local regulations which are determined to infringe and/or impair the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment.

Yours Respectfully,

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms