This ruling says nothing about guns on the streets. Says nothing about already existing felony conviction, mental problem, (and various other) preclusions from gun ownership. He's already out spinning that which doesn't apply.
Another thing I haven't seen addressed is how DC is a federal district, not a state. Can't automatically apply everything in this ruling. Have to read it thoroughly.
In the early-mid 1990's then DC Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelley was practically *begging* to have the National Guard patrol the streets of DC, for an indeterminate length of time, to combat a rising crime rate.
Think about it... A mayor of the capital city of the US was wanting to place that city under martial law, indefinitely!! And this *after* a decade or more of the now-overturned ban.
I call BS on Fenty, and all other gun-grabbers! Your bans have *never* made one ordinary citizen safer, and is a recipe for martial law, and fascist government. This may be "an inconvenient truth", but it is a truth, nonetheless...
the infowarrior
From United States v Miller:
And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.
Every time a gun-grabber whines aobut the "high-powered weapons" that are so "common" these days, we should get a recording of it and archive it...for use in demonstrating that many "evil" weapons are "in common use," and therefore protected. :-)