2aguy
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The anti-gunners will block the 2nd Amendment every chance they get.....this time they lost, which means this issue will need to go to the Supreme Court....kennedy and ginsburg can't retire fast enough....
And hey....there is even an LGBT component to this victory.......the Pink Pistols win a court case....
BREAKING: District of Columbia's "May Issue" Carry Law Struck Down - The Truth About Guns
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has just issued a permanent injunction against the Districtās āmay issueā firearms licensing scheme, holding that the Second Amendmentās ācore lawful purposeā of āself-defenseā included the right to carry a firearm beyond the home. The opinion, written by Judge Thomas B. Griffith, held in part:
[C]arrying [a firearm] beyond the home, even in populated areas, even without special need, falls within the [Second] Amendmentās coverage, indeed within its coreā¦.
[A]t a minimum, the Amendmentās core must protect carrying given the risks and needs typical of law-abiding citizens. That is a right that most D.C. residents can never exercise, by the lawās very design. In this way, the Districtās regulation completely prohibits most residents from exercising the constitutional right to bear arms as viewed in the light cast by history and Heller I. And under Heller I, ācomplete prohibition of Second Amendment rights are always invalidā¦.
Bans on the ability of most citizens to exercise an enumerated right would have to flunk any judicial test that was appropriately written and applied, so we strike down the Districtās law here apart from any particular balancing test.
The Appellate Court heard on two different cases challenging DCās may issue regime: Wrenn v. D.C., which was backed by Alan Gottliebās Second Amendment Foundation, and Grace v. D.C.which was backed by the LGBT gun rights organization, Pink Pistols. Both plaintiffs had sought an injunction against enforcing the Districtās āgood reasonā requirement for the issuance of firearms carry licenses. A lower court judge denied Wrennās request last March, but a different judge granted Graceās request (but stayed the order pending appeal.) The DC Circuit combined the two matters and adjudicated them simultaneously.
And hey....there is even an LGBT component to this victory.......the Pink Pistols win a court case....
BREAKING: District of Columbia's "May Issue" Carry Law Struck Down - The Truth About Guns
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has just issued a permanent injunction against the Districtās āmay issueā firearms licensing scheme, holding that the Second Amendmentās ācore lawful purposeā of āself-defenseā included the right to carry a firearm beyond the home. The opinion, written by Judge Thomas B. Griffith, held in part:
[C]arrying [a firearm] beyond the home, even in populated areas, even without special need, falls within the [Second] Amendmentās coverage, indeed within its coreā¦.
[A]t a minimum, the Amendmentās core must protect carrying given the risks and needs typical of law-abiding citizens. That is a right that most D.C. residents can never exercise, by the lawās very design. In this way, the Districtās regulation completely prohibits most residents from exercising the constitutional right to bear arms as viewed in the light cast by history and Heller I. And under Heller I, ācomplete prohibition
Bans on the ability of most citizens to exercise an enumerated right would have to flunk any judicial test that was appropriately written and applied, so we strike down the Districtās law here apart from any particular balancing test.
The Appellate Court heard on two different cases challenging DCās may issue regime: Wrenn v. D.C., which was backed by Alan Gottliebās Second Amendment Foundation, and Grace v. D.C.which was backed by the LGBT gun rights organization, Pink Pistols. Both plaintiffs had sought an injunction against enforcing the Districtās āgood reasonā requirement for the issuance of firearms carry licenses. A lower court judge denied Wrennās request last March, but a different judge granted Graceās request (but stayed the order pending appeal.) The DC Circuit combined the two matters and adjudicated them simultaneously.