District of Columbia vs. Heller, Part II

So what are you doing for the next decade or so? Pull up and chair and prepare for District of Columbia vs. Heller, Part II. Yes, Dick Heller, the man who successfully won a lawsuit that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the Washington, D.C. gun ban.

That suit ruled that the ban and the requirement that guns that were allowed in one’s home had to be rendered inoperable, was unconstitutional. When Dick Heller went to register his handgun under the District’s “new” gun laws, he was denied because officials say his gun was illegal.

Dick Heller has once again sued the District of Columbia, according to the Washington Post.

Dick A. Heller, a 66-year-old security guard who lives on Capitol Hill, and two other plaintiffs allege in the lawsuit that the D.C. government violated the letter and the spirit of the landmark Supreme Court decision, issued June 26, that struck down the District’s decades-old handgun ban.

The suit urges U.S. District Judge Richard M. Urbina to toss most of the District’s new requirements, which include ballistics tests of registered handguns. It also asks him to eliminate restrictions on semiautomatic handguns and to order D.C. police to approve the handgun applications of the three plaintiffs.

Unexpected? Not at all. What is surprising to many is the District’s brazen attitude and obvious disregard for the law of the land.

Read more on the District of Columbia vs. Heller.

Tom Remington

Related Articles

• NRA Appeals Seventh Circuit Ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court (4)
• Reasonable Restrictions On Guns And Gun Ownership (2)
• NRA Sues Seattle Over Illegal Gun Ban (1)
• Chicago Will Continue Gun Ban Despite Heller Supreme Court Decision (0)
• Montana’s New Gun Law Going Viral (5)
• Ten Years After Columbine, TIME Still Doesn’t Get It (4)
• AG Holder: “A Few Gun Related Changes We’d Like To Make” (4)

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!