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A civil rights victory by the Second Amendment Foundation

DC appeals court rules that the “good reason” rule for CCW was not OK and issued an injunction against enforcement of the requirement:

At the Second Amendments core lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms for personal self-defense beyond the home, subject to longstanding restrictionsThe Districts good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on exercises of that constitutional right for most D.C. residents. Thats enough to sink this law under (the 2008 U.S. Supreme Courts Heller ruling).

11 Responses to “A civil rights victory by the Second Amendment Foundation”

  1. Lyle Says:

    A small step, but it’s in the right direction. If we’re going to look at “the second amendment’s core” then imposing a permitting requirement is an unconstitutional overreach, claiming an authority which does not exist.
    A true right means not having to ask permission.

  2. Stretch Says:

    Not gonna see “shall issue” in DC until the city counsel, mayor, police chief and House Rep. are frog marched off to Federal Prison for civil rights violations.
    And that is never going to happen.

  3. Veeshir Says:

    You got it Stretch.
    This ain’t the first time a court told them to stop being gun-grabbers. They ignored all the previous orders so I don’t see this one doing any good.

    Who’s gonna enforce this judge’s order? The Dept of “Justice”? DC gov’t?

  4. Drake Says:

    So when will NY and NJ get slapped down for exactly the same thing?

  5. Paul Koning Says:

    Since Congress has plenary legislative power over DC, all it would take to get Shall Issue, or for that matter Constitutional Carry (the correct answer) is for Congress to pass and the President to sign a law making it so. At that point, the city council and their ilk have no say in the matter.

  6. Tim Says:

    Paul, you and that fancy book-learnin’ strike agin…..

  7. Remington 870 Owner Says:

    A court does its job. It’s good to see that.

  8. Tirno Says:

    If this decision gets appealed to the SCOTUS and they uphold it, I’d like to see Congress pass some civil rights legislation and create a new 2nd Amendment Enforcement division at the DOJ Civil Rights Division. I’d also like to see DC, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, California and Hawaii subjected to “pre-authorization” restrictions on any law, regulation or implementation that touches even slightly on the ability of an individual citizen to keep, bear, buy, sell, use for lawful purposes, etc anything that could be described as an “arm”. It’d be analogous to the pre-authorization requirements imposed on the southern (Democrat) states after the civil rights act with respect to voting regulations due to their persistent efforts not to recognize protected civil rights and to try to infringe upon them with any loophole left in a court decision.

    I’d also like a pony.

    On the other hand, we could pass a law creating a structure for a state to go bankrupt and have the debt absorbed by the nation, with the consequence of the state in question losing its statehood and being reverted to a territory until the debt is settled out of territorial assets. That’d pretty quickly take care of Illinois and California, which should be collapsing any day now under their unmanageable debts and obligations.

  9. Fûz Says:

    Tirno, I think you’ll get . . . the pony.

  10. Tirno Says:

    Fûz, I suspect I will be disappointed on that count, as well.

  11. Beatbox Says:

    Concealed carry will happen (eventually) in DC. If they appeal en banc, they will likely win. However, by that time, there will be at least one, maybe 2 new justices on the court.

    They can appeal straight to SCOTUS, but the court has shown no interest in these cases.

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