Oakland Tactical and its attorneys have argued that the township effectively banned outdoor, long-distance shooting ranges and violated their right to train with firearms in a safe setting. Township attorneys argue Oakland Tactical is claiming an "overextended right" that is not covered by the plain text of the Second Amendment. "The Supreme Court’s reasoning in Bruen does not change this court’s determination of the scope of the Second Amendment in its prior (2020) opinion," township attorneys said in a brief filed Sept. Township officials have asked Friedman to again support their argument. Howell Township and Oakland Tactical recently submitted briefs to the court arguing their sides. The Supreme Court ruling also changed the "test" lower courts should use when determining the constitutionality of firearm regulations. Bruen, which struck down a New York law requiring state residents to have a special need to carry weapons outside the home. Supreme Court ruling on gun rights in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in light of a U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals judges sent the Howell Township case back to the U.S.
District Court Judge Bernard Friedman ruled in 2020 the township did not violate the gun owners' constitutional rights. In their suit, Oakland Tactical and gun owners Scott Fresh, Jason Raines, Matthew Remenar, Edward Dimitroff and Ronald Penrod claim the township violated the Second Amendment by denying Paige's request to amend the township's zoning ordinance to allow shooting ranges on land zoned for agricultural residential development.
Oakland Tactical Supply owner Mike Paige and five firearms owners recently made headway in federal appeals court in their 2018 suit against the township, which sent the case back to a lower court, but now the plaintiffs will have to convince the same district court judge who ruled against them in 2020 to change his mind. Township officials and their attorneys are again trying to get a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit over a proposed shooting range.
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