U.S. judge strikes down D.C. concealed-carry gun law as likely unconstitutional
Source: Washington Post
By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow
May 17 at 2:26 PM
A federal judge has ruled that a key provision of the Districts new gun law is likely unconstitutional, ordering D.C. police to stop requiring individuals to show good reason to obtain a permit to carry a firearm on the streets of the nations capital.
In imposing a preliminary injunction pending further litigation, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon reignited a running battle over the Second Amendment in the District and its courts where three different judges have now weighed in with varying conclusions.
The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table, Leon wrote in a 46-page opinion, quoting a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2008 in another District case that established a constitutional right to keep firearms in ones home. ... Leon said that the right applies both inside and outside the home.
The Districts understandable, but overzealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest possible number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the Justices had in mind, he wrote.
{Read the judges full opinion here}
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alp227
(32,025 posts)AP: Appeals court reinstates gun store lawsuit over restrictions
9th Circuit decision here.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)If this case won out and set the precedent, the TRAP laws on abortion clinics could be overturned on that same logic. The regulation is clearly intended to burden the right.