The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division amended its lawsuit against Washington, DC Thursday, broadening it so as not only to target the District’s AR-15 ban but its suppressor ban as well.
Breitbart News reported the initial lawsuit in December 2025, noting that it was directed toward the District’s “restrictive AR-15 gun controls.” The New York Times noted that the DOJ claimed the controls that target AR-15s and similar rifles via an “assault weapons” ban are “based on little more than cosmetics, appearance, or the ability to attach accessories.”
On May 14, 2026, the Civil Rights Division amended the complaint, zeroing in on DC’s suppressor ban, too.
The complaint says: “D.C. Code § 22–4514(a) bans firearm suppressors (which it calls ‘appliance[s] for causing the firing of any firearm to be silent or intended to lessen or muffle the noise of the firing of any firearms’). But suppressors are also in common use by law-abiding Americans and
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