DSSA FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING PERMIT TO PURCHASE

From the DSSA - Delaware Sportsmen's Association - Facebook Post on November 4, 2025

BREAKING NEWS:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that a hearing on the plaintiffs' motion is set for 11/13/2025 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 4A before Judge Maryellen Noreika. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the plaintiffs shall serve a copy of this Oral Order on the defendants promptly. ORDERED by Judge Maryellen Noreika on 11/4/2025. (mdb).

This is why we're here: to defend our right to bear arms and sometimes we get judges who understand the urgency of our pleas.

As with all of these challenges, they don't happen without YOUR help. Please donate at www.dssa.us/donate.

From the DSSA Facebook Post on November 3, 2025

Today, the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association and its allies opened a new front in the continuing war against governmental overreaching, tyranny, and hypocrisy, expanding once again its ongoing efforts to defend your right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes.

According to sources inside Delaware’s state government, the State Police are scrambling in a vain attempt to meet the deadline set by the General Assembly.

November 16th is the “drop dead” date after which only a select few individuals – such as persons holding Concealed Carry Permits – will be able to purchase a handgun in Delaware without a DSP-issued permit – a permit that may not even be available to the average citizen on that all-important drop-dead date.

DSP has already missed several critical deadlines and are using unprecedented “quick fixes” to get past those problems – quick fixes that are themselves of questionable legality.

Today, we filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware challenging Delaware’s new Permit-to-Purchase law, seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and a full-fledged injunction.

Essentially, this new lawsuit asks the court to stop the implementation of Permit-to-Purchase and to maintain the status quo until such time as the legality of Permit-to-Purchase can be decided by the courts. In other words, this suit asks the Court to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens until those rights can be adjudicated and ultimately vindicated under the Second, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.

This new lawsuit is just the latest in a long line of court actions brought by DSSA and its allies on behalf of Delaware’s law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, collectors, sportsmen/women and self-defense enthusiasts.