A Persistent Threat to Second Amendment Rights
The D.C. City Council has imposed a very burdensome system of gun registration. Only a handful of states have any registration and none has a system as complicated as that of the District. There is a solution to this tyranny. Congress can pass H.R. 1399, the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act." The bill, which is supported by the NRA and has 247 co-sponsors, would repeal the D.C. handgun ban and the storage requirement which prohibits keeping a firearm ready for self-defense in the home, two of the provisions found to be unconstitutional in the Heller decision. Moreover, it would repeal the D.C. registration system, which is burdensome in its own right and serves as a vehicle for even more restrictions and skewed definitions. H.R. 1399 would restrict the D.C. Council's authority to impose undue restrictions upon residents' Second Amendment right. It also would repeal the ban upon semi-automatic firearms, conforming the District's law to federal legislation. It would repeal various restrictions on ammunition and the District's "Strict Liability Act," which allows manufacturers of certain types of guns "to be held strictly liable in tort, without regard to fault or proof of defect."
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The National Rifle Association is putting the election-year squeeze on conservative Democrats, demanding that they buck their leadership to support a bill to erase more of the District of Columbia's gun laws. Democratic gun rights supporters will risk losing their A-plus rating if they don't sign a discharge petition to be filed Wednesday bringing the gun-rights bill directly to the floor... The vote could put vulnerable Democrats, many of them freshmen elected in 2006 from conservative rural districts, in a bind. Supporters, building on their historic Supreme Court victory on gun rights in June, think they have a good chance of getting the bill to the floor because 250 House members signed an amicus curiae brief to the high court calling for repeal of the handgun ban, including 65 Democratic members. The bill, by Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), has 247 co-sponsors, including 56 Democrats.Thanks neverdem!