Judge upholds DC's post-Supreme Court gun laws

[pbwalker]

http://www.woai.com/news/national/story ... Bh0eQ.cspx

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has upheld limitations on gun ownership that the District of Columbia put in place following the Supreme Court's 2008 decision overturning the city's outright ban on handguns.

Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case, had challenged the new regulations, claiming the registration procedures, a ban on most semiautomatic weapons and other limitations violate the intent of the high court's decision.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina sided with the city Friday.

[shootthesheet]

I don't expect that decision to stand.

[chabouk]

That's the same district court that ruled against Heller in his first case.

[SwimFan85]

[Rex B]

Alan Gura, call your office

[casingpoint]

Now it's off to the D.C. Court of Appeals, and the battle for scrutiny has begun.

[suthdj]

Hmm I thought the only person to over rule the SCOTUS was "The most interesting man in the world"

[ScottDLS]

http://www.woai.com/news/national/story ... Bh0eQ.cspx

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has upheld limitations on gun ownership that the District of Columbia put in place following the Supreme Court's 2008 decision overturning the city's outright ban on handguns.

Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case, had challenged the new regulations, claiming the registration procedures, a ban on most semiautomatic weapons and other limitations violate the intent of the high court's decision.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina sided with the city Friday.

I remember reading about a reporter who lived in DC buying a Glock 19 after the SCOTUS ruling was implemented by DC. That would have been a prohibited weapon under their old semi-auto ban. I wonder if they're still keeping the ban on most semi-auto rifles...

[CaptWoodrow10]

I can see this one getting ugly, though I doubt it will stand given the SC's ruling. Maybe one day (in the far away future) Texas will have reciprocity with the capital... I know. Wishful thinking on my part.

[surprise_i'm_armed]

As part of DC's still-repressive attitude towards guns,
DC uses the California approved firearms list.

It's crazy the way it works. The Kali list might approve
a black XD in a certain caliber, with a certain barrel length.

But if the same caliber XD, in the same barrel length, is a bi-tone,
you are not allowed to have one. Sheesh!

SIA

[casingpoint]

The D.C. Appeals Court will uphold this case which was decided under lesser scrutiny. MacDonald will be remanded to the Seventy Circuit, which recently indicated in Skoein it would apply strict scrutiny in core right cases like MacDonald. By squirrel season, it should all be headed to SCOTUS for final determination. A ruling for strict scrutiny would make most existing gun regulations in the U.S. illegal. Maybe all this can go down before Stevens retires and Cass Sunstein is seated...I which case I'll be eating crow over this post and we will all be eating tofu and coagulated algae.

[Bart]

The irony is they put the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights because of government officials like that.