Court Affirms District’s Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional
By Greg L | 8 May 2007 | Crime | 10 Comments
In a rather significant setback for gun control advocates, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has just turned down the District’s appeal for a rehearing in front of the full court on the Parker v. DC. Earlier, a three judge panel decided that the District’s handgun ban and the ban on having loaded firearms in resident’s homes was unconstitutional.
They’ve only got one place to go now, and that’s the Supreme Court. Given the current makeup of that court, I think it’s very likely that citizens in the District of Columbia may soon be able to throw off the shackles of this failed gun control experiment, and finally be able to defend themselves against the human predators which have plagued them for so long. The reaction from the District’s liberal leadership should be very interesting…
UPDATE: You can read the court’s opinion here.
The opinions expressed here are solely the views of the author, and not representative of the position of any organization, political party, doughnut shop, knitting guild, or waste recycling facility, but may be correctly attributed to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. If anything in the above article has offended you, please click here to receive an immediate apology.
You can follow the discussion through the Comments feed.
10 Comments
Views: 654
Loading ...
I can’t wait to her the hissy fit that is forthcoming from DC. A city that welcomes illegals, yet does not support a Constitutional right.
Now, if they’d only rule on my mandamus petition!
Regardless of what you think of Members of Congress, citizenofmanassas, is it really fair (or polite) to refer to them as “illegals”?
O the irony - DC may soon have taxation WITH representation for the first time in a century and a half and its delegate to Congress will oppose DC citizens’ 2nd amendment rights. Kinda hard to follow at times. Jerry
Rick,
That is funny. I guess I was not thinking of those illegals.
Funny, Rick. But back to citizen’s point, I assume that that does not surprise him. It is, after all, the main principle of the the practice of modern Liberalism. Indeed, the practice of modern Liberalism relies upon disregard for constitutional limitations.
I hope the Supreme Court takes this one. The issue is important and would benefit from a final disposition at the highest level.
Rick,
It does not surprise me at all what DC has been doing over the years. Of course while the leaders that be have denied Constitutional rights to their Citizens, it has protested for years they have not had full representation in Congress. Ironic I suppose.
[…] BVBL reports that the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit has refused to grant the D. C. government’s request for an en banc hearing. The Second Amendment remains alive and well unless the Supremes decide to take a swipe at it. […]
I have a sneaking suspicion that, WaPo entreaties and politicians’ bluster to the contrary notwithstanding, the District will not file a petition for a writ of certiorari. If it fails to do so, the D.C. Circuit’s petition is the law only in the District, and is nothing more than persuasive authority for any other Circuit.
It’s a rather common tactical decision among the Left/unions in my practice. They bite the bullet and take a bad decision in a single Circuit, because they fear the adverse impact of a Supreme Court decision, which of course has nationwide application. The last three times they took one of our Circuit-court “wins” to the Supremes — Teachers Local No. 1 v. Hudson; Communications Workers v. Beck; and Air Line Pilots Association v. Miller (the party seeking review is listed first) — they lost. Badly.
And while the Supremes reverse in about 65% of the cases they take (the last statistic I saw on the issue), there is that 35% of cases where they take the case to affirm and apply a good Circuit-court decision nationwide.