The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Virgin Islands Police Department, alleging the territory has created an unconstitutional firearm permitting system that blocks law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights.
The DOJ alleges that the Virgin Islands government and its police department have “continued to obstruct and systematically deny law-abiding American citizens this fundamental right by systematically delaying the processing of applications and imposing unconstitutional conditions on the exercise of this constitutional right.”
The lawsuit says those practices have rendered the right to keep and bear arms “a virtual nullity within the United States Virgin Islands territory.”
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