D.C. Will Not Appeal Loss on Carry Permits

Ammoland ^ | 9 October, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The government of the District of Columbia has decided not to appeal the Circuit court decision in Wrenn v. D.C.

 A week ago the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that they would not rehear Wrenn v. D.C. en banc. That ended the D.C. Circuit level of appeals for the District of Columbia.

The issue was whether D.C. law, that was used to arbitrarily deny concealed carry permits, was constitutional. D.C. lost. The question became, would they appeal to the Supreme Court.

From foxnews.com:

The city’s attorney general said the decision not to appeal the ruling was a strategic one. He worries if the city were to appeal to the Supreme Court and lose, it would affect similar gun regulations elsewhere including in Maryland, New Jersey and New York.

"I continue to believe the District's `good reason' requirement is a common-sense, and constitutional, gun regulation,” District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine said in a statement. “However, we must reckon with the fact that an adverse decision by the Supreme Court could have wide-ranging negative effects not just on District residents, but on the country as a whole."

The attorney general acknowledged receiving several phone calls from elected and unelected officials in other jurisdictions worried about the effect of such a ruling against the city. But Racine said the decision was ultimately made in his city's best interest.

At the Gun Rights Policy Conference a few days ago, two separate opinions were expressed about the possibility of the government of the District of Columbia appealing the decision to the Supreme Court. Both were put forward by intellectual heavy hitters.  I paid attention.

[marktwain]

I have read it.

I hope we are in a revolutionary moment, rather like what happened with the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

[cyclotic]

I just heard about it and had no backup, but this article quotes Frosh saying he wants DC to not appeal to “save” the rest of the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-weighs-gun-law-appeal-while-fate-of-the-whole-country-hangs-in-balance/2017/10/03/8b1bb338-a859-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.6fb700116c15

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for that resource and link. If Congress had a set of gonads among them, this could have been quickly solved.

[cyclotic]

It was resolved in 1791. These dinosaours just refuse to accept it.

[T-Bird45]

Can’t disagree with that.