To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them. - George Mason
I knew all I had to do was wait.
Today, Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court DC gun ban case, filed another lawsuit against DC, claiming its new regulations violate the Second Amendment.
He calls the regulations “highly unusual and unreasonable.” (Source)
Earlier this month, I told you about DC’s so-called compliance with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling. Five out of nine justices said that DC’s former handgun ban violated the Second Amendment. In response, DC drew up new and restrictive gun laws. Follow this: I may buy and register a handgun and keep it in my home, but I must allow the police department to perform ballistics tests on it, I must take and pass a written exam, and I must keep my handgun unloaded and disassembled in my home. If I or anyone in my home feels threatened, I may assemble and load my gun and shoot the person. Such sweethearts.
Heller’s lawyer illustrated the absurdity of the new regulations, saying that a thug would have to make an appointment to rob a resident in order for that resident to use his/her handgun under DC’s new regulations.
Mayor Adrian Fenty and his Second Amendment-hating liberal cabal are determined to keep guns in the hands of criminals and out of the hands of law-abiding residents.
Also see Packing Heat In VA/Defenseless In DC.
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I saw this coming.
Now maybe the SCOTUS will get to decide what ’shall not be infringed’ means. How can anyone reconcile ’shall not be infringed’ with the ‘reasonable infringments’ that are gun control laws.
Couple that with the push for Unlicensed Open Carry in the remaining 6 states that ban it, and it is easy to see a trend towards restoration of our Constitution. These are exciting times!
Can’t the Justices of the Supreme Court order the Mayor and members of the city council to comply with the Heller decision, or be held in contempt?
Think of all the extra paperwork the police would have to fill out, if DC citizens were allowed to defend themselves.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector:
“Think of all the extra paperwork the police would have to fill out, if DC citizens were allowed to defend themselves.”
Yes, those pesky survivors will have to be interviewed for their statements, rather than bagged and tagged, like before. Plus, who knows how many more victims will report crime and testify, now that they can protect themselves from retaliation?
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