Smith & Wesson's constitutional challenge to N.J. fraud probe rejected

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson Brands Inc seeking to block New Jersey's attorney general from enforcing a subpoena to investigate whether the company committed fraud while advertising firearms to consumers.

Smith & Wesson was barred from pursuing federal claims that the subpoena violated its constitutional rights after already unsuccessfully litigating those same arguments in state court.

The company argued the circumstances had changed after the U.S. Supreme Court in June's New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. BruenBut Padin said the Supreme Court's ruling "governs the analysis for laws that burden an individual’s Second Amendment right to armed self-defense; it does not speak to the primary issue in this case."

Smith & Wesson filed its federal lawsuit in December 2020 after refusing to comply with a subpoena that October from Platkin's predecessor, Gurbir Grewal.

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