Posted on 05/19/2015 2:39:43 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Ten months after striking down the District’s long-standing ban on carrying firearms in public as unconstitutional, a federal judge Monday ordered the city to halt enforcing a key provision of the new gun-permitting system it adapted in response.
As passed by the D.C. Council, the District’s new carry legislation remains among the strictest in the nation, requiring applicants to state good reason to carry a weapon in order to obtain a permit from police, matching laws in Maryland, New Jersey and New York.
However, in a 23-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. ruled that condition — known as the “good reason/proper reason” requirement — still “impinges on Plaintiffs’ Second Amendment right to bear arms,” because it fails to target dangerous people or specifically how or where individuals carry weapons.
“The issue here is not whether the . . . requirement is a reasonable or wise policy choice. Rather, the issue is whether this requirement, no matter how well intended, violates the Second Amendment,” Scullin wrote. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Sure, I’ve got a good reason. It’s my constitutional right.”
I understand why DC wants to have no guns in DC. With so many Secret Service, FBI, ATF and DEA drunks running all over the city, having more guns just increases the chaos. Maybe if the Feds got their people under control, DC wouldn’t have to have extreme measures. I mean, they shot and killed an unarmed female with a child in the car!
I would like to see our courts appoint masters over certain issues that we know the government will just tweak a law, implement a rule, or a statutory or a statutory regulation then reset the clock back two more years for litigation to catch up.
They will just keep trying. Eventually a judge will decide "the right way" and then the law will be settled and any further attempts to get a ruling on the issue will be laughed at.
The Left has great success with this sort of persistence.
“They will just keep trying. Eventually a judge will decide “the right way” and then the law will be settled and any further attempts to get a ruling on the issue will be laughed at.”
I’m waiting for that to happen. Our completely worthless SCOTUS picks at the 2A like it’s a scab. I am waiting for the day when the judiciary tells the RATS “don’t mess with the 2A any more. If you do, we will see that you do jail time!” Making them pay (using our money) isn’t going to stop them. They need to know that they are going away.
The D.C. city council has the opposite of “good faith” in this, with one councilman going so far as to say that they knew it was unconstitutional when they wrote it, and after a long time strung out in appeals process it is overturned, they will immediately pass another unconstitutional law to take its place. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Yeah, but she was black, so Congress gave her death a standing ovation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.