A civil rights victory by the Second Amendment Foundation
DC appeals court rules that the “good reason” rule for CCW was not OK and issued an injunction against enforcement of the requirement:
At the Second Amendments core lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms for personal self-defense beyond the home, subject to longstanding restrictionsThe Districts good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on exercises of that constitutional right for most D.C. residents. Thats enough to sink this law under (the 2008 U.S. Supreme Courts Heller ruling).
July 25th, 2017 at 7:21 pm
A small step, but it’s in the right direction. If we’re going to look at “the second amendment’s core” then imposing a permitting requirement is an unconstitutional overreach, claiming an authority which does not exist.
A true right means not having to ask permission.
July 25th, 2017 at 10:14 pm
Not gonna see “shall issue” in DC until the city counsel, mayor, police chief and House Rep. are frog marched off to Federal Prison for civil rights violations.
And that is never going to happen.
July 26th, 2017 at 12:07 am
You got it Stretch.
This ain’t the first time a court told them to stop being gun-grabbers. They ignored all the previous orders so I don’t see this one doing any good.
Who’s gonna enforce this judge’s order? The Dept of “Justice”? DC gov’t?
July 26th, 2017 at 7:56 am
So when will NY and NJ get slapped down for exactly the same thing?
July 26th, 2017 at 11:25 am
Since Congress has plenary legislative power over DC, all it would take to get Shall Issue, or for that matter Constitutional Carry (the correct answer) is for Congress to pass and the President to sign a law making it so. At that point, the city council and their ilk have no say in the matter.
July 26th, 2017 at 11:34 am
Paul, you and that fancy book-learnin’ strike agin…..
July 26th, 2017 at 12:16 pm
A court does its job. It’s good to see that.
July 26th, 2017 at 6:37 pm
If this decision gets appealed to the SCOTUS and they uphold it, I’d like to see Congress pass some civil rights legislation and create a new 2nd Amendment Enforcement division at the DOJ Civil Rights Division. I’d also like to see DC, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, California and Hawaii subjected to “pre-authorization” restrictions on any law, regulation or implementation that touches even slightly on the ability of an individual citizen to keep, bear, buy, sell, use for lawful purposes, etc anything that could be described as an “arm”. It’d be analogous to the pre-authorization requirements imposed on the southern (Democrat) states after the civil rights act with respect to voting regulations due to their persistent efforts not to recognize protected civil rights and to try to infringe upon them with any loophole left in a court decision.
I’d also like a pony.
On the other hand, we could pass a law creating a structure for a state to go bankrupt and have the debt absorbed by the nation, with the consequence of the state in question losing its statehood and being reverted to a territory until the debt is settled out of territorial assets. That’d pretty quickly take care of Illinois and California, which should be collapsing any day now under their unmanageable debts and obligations.
July 26th, 2017 at 8:04 pm
Tirno, I think you’ll get . . . the pony.
July 26th, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Fûz, I suspect I will be disappointed on that count, as well.
July 27th, 2017 at 12:17 pm
Concealed carry will happen (eventually) in DC. If they appeal en banc, they will likely win. However, by that time, there will be at least one, maybe 2 new justices on the court.
They can appeal straight to SCOTUS, but the court has shown no interest in these cases.