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The NSSF "claims the emergency legislation was illegally passed in April without proper public input, time for adequate review by members of the General Assembly, or a statement of facts explaining why lawmakers needed to bypass the usual legislative process." This looks like a claim based on state and not federal law. Even though NSSF also claims a Second Amendment violation, there is a good chance a federal court might decline to hear the state law claims since they are arguably not similar enough and do not involve the same nucleus of operative facts.
Federal courts have discretion to hear state law claims only if they are sufficiently connected to the federal claim. This is called pendent jurisdiction.
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