A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a county-level ordinance in Colorado that bans the manufacture, sale, and transfer of several types of semiautomatic rifles and handguns, which gun rights groups say violates the Second Amendment protection of the right to keep and bear arms.
The Boulder County Board of Commissioners adopted Ordinance 2022-5 (pdf) on Aug. 2.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) and the National Foundation for Gun Rights, along with a man named Martin Carter Kehoe, sued the county over the ordinance.
On Aug. 30, U.S. District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney approved the TRO, thus halting the enforcement of the ordinance for a period of 14 days (pdf)….