Article: Virginia’s “Assault Weapons” Ban Draws Immediate Legal Fire — in State and Federal Court

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“The complaint is signed by attorneys from three Virginia firms:  David G. Browne of Spiro & Browne in Glen Allen; Robert J. and William J. Olson of William J. Olson, P.C. in Vienna; and Oliver M. Krawczyk and Gilbert Ambler of Ambler Law Offices in Winchester.  This team is not new to this theory or this courtroom posture.  Olson, Browne, and Ambler worked together on Stickley v. City of Winchester — a Virginia circuit court challenge under Article I, Section 13, that produced a preliminary injunction against a Winchester firearms ordinance.  The Stickley court held that Bruen’s textual and historical methodology applies to the state constitutional right and that a prohibition on firearms in public places is unconstitutional.  That decision appears to be the direct template for the relief sought here.

Olson’s Second Amendment docket is extensive:  the firm has filed its 200th amicus brief at the US Supreme Court, with firearms litigation spanning every federal circuit.  In Virginia specifically, the firm has litigated Lynchburg Range & Training v. Northam, VCDL v. City of Roanoke, Hyland v. Winchester, and Stickley.  National cases include challenges to the ATF’s frame-and-receiver rule, Antonyuk v. Hochul (New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act), and an amicus brief in Peterson v. United States challenging the NFA suppressor registration scheme under Bruen.”

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