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Friday, July 18, 2008

DC ignores Supreme Court

So you thought the Heller decision meant that DC couldn't restrict or control gun access? Not so fast... the DC council has quickly passed a law establishing just about the strictest regulations around for owning and keeping a gun in the home, among them that it must be kept unloaded and trigger locked, unless the owner faces a threat of imminent harm. So the robber must make an appointment so you can have your gun ready to defend yourself.
Dick Heller himself attempted to register his seven shot semi-automatic pistol, and was rejected, on the basis that his weapon could hold a larger clip and fits into DC's category for "machine guns", as do all semi-automatic pistols, apparently. This would be laughable, if it weren't true, but DC's obstructionism will certainly falter after the NRA and law-abiding gun owners sue the hell out of them. The anti-gun forces in the US are on the run, and with Heller established law, overly restrictive gun laws, like DC's and Chicago's, should be struck down soon as unconstitutional. At least that is the hope, but federal and state judges have a way of making their own law that sometimes makes no sense to the rest of us.

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