The Department of Justice just dropped a bombshell on Denver’s entrenched semi-automatic rifle ban, filing a lawsuit that could ripple through gun-control strongholds nationwide. Citing the landmark Heller decision—which affirmed an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense—the DOJ argues that Denver’s prohibition on these ubiquitous firearms is not just outdated, but unconstitutional. This isn’t some abstract legal skirmish; Denver’s ban, in place since the ’90s and expanded over time, has long served as a blueprint for urban anti-2A policies, mirroring failed assaults like Maryland’s post-Sandy Hook restrictions that courts have shredded. The feds are wielding 18 U.S.C. § 922(t), the national instant background check law, to highlight how local overreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreachreach