BRIDGEVILLE RIFLE & PISTOL CLUB v. SMALL

No. 15, 2017.

176 A.3d 632 (2017)

BRIDGEVILLE RIFLE & PISTOL CLUB, LTD.; Mark Hester; John R. Sylvester; Marshall Kenneth Watkins; Barbara Boyce, DHSc RDN; Roger T. Boyce, Sr.; and the Delaware State Sportsmen's Association, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. David SMALL, Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; Ed Kee, Secretary of Delaware Department of Agriculture; and Delaware Department of Agriculture, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: December 7, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis G.X. Pileggi, Esquire (argued), and Alexandra D. Rogin, Esquire , Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellants.

Ralph K. Durstein, III, Esquire (argued), and Devera B. Scott, Esquire , State of Delaware Department of Justice, Dover, Delaware, for Appellees.

Myron T. Steele, Esquire and Jesse L. Noa, Esquire , Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, for Amicus Curiae, Members of the Delaware General Assembly.

Thomas D. Shellenberger, Esquire , Law Office of Thomas D. Shellenberger LLC, Wilmington, Delaware, for Amicus Curiae, Pink Pistols.

Brian Gottesman, Esquire , Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: Dan M. Peterson, Esquire , Dan M. Peterson PLLC, Fairfax, Virginia, for Amici Curiae, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, Law Enforcement Action Network, and Retired Delaware Police Officers Hosfelt, Smith, Deputy, Egolf, Monaghan, Briggs, Roe, Brode, Capitan, Konnick, and Guittari.

Jeffrey S. Goddess, Esquire , Rosenthal, Monhait & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: Paul B. Carberry, Esquire , White & Case LLP, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae, The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Stephen E. Jenkins, Esquire and Marie M. Degnan, Esquire , Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: David H. Thompson, Esquire , Peter A. Patterson, Esquire and Haley N. Proctor, Esquire , Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae, National Rifle Association of America, Inc.

Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VALIHURA, VAUGHN, SEITZ and TRAYNOR, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.


This appeal concerns guns and, as such, has attracted numerous amici curiae raising politically fraught questions concerning gun rights.1 However, at its core, this case raises straightforward questions of Delaware constitutional and administrative law. We are asked whether unelected...

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