Sen. Cramer, Colleagues File on Amicus Brief to Protect Americans' Second Amendment Rights

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in filing an amicus brief for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Legislators -- whether in Albany or Washington, D.C. -- have neither the power nor the authority to second-guess the policy judgments made by the Framers and enshrined in the Constitution," the senators wrote. "The Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms cannot be second-guessed by legislators across the country who simply disagree with the choice the Framers made."

The brief argues New York's laws -- which make it extremely difficult to carry a firearm outside the home -- violate the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms. It also emphasizes that by including the right to bear arms in the Constitution, the Framers made a policy choice and explicitly removed from state and federal legislators the ability to second guess that choice.

Senators Cramer and Cruz are joined on the amicus brief by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).

Read the full text of the amicus brief here.

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