Victory in dc palmer case

[AKJ20]

Justice never sleeps…. not even on a Saturday afternoon, when this opinion was just handed down.

In light of Heller, McDonald, and their progeny, there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional. Accordingly, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and enjoins Defendants from enforcing the home limitations of D.C. Code § 7-2502.02(a)(4) and enforcing D.C. Code § 22-4504(a) unless and until such time as the District of Columbia adopts a licensing mechanism consistent with constitutional standards enabling people to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.4 Furthermore, this injunction prohibits the District from completely banning the carrying of handguns in public for self-defense by otherwise qualified non-residents based solely on the fact that they are not residents of the District.

http://alangura.com/

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Good stuff. Maybe that will encourage Obama to leave DC to some place he'll feel "safe". But then, he might schedule a presidential motorcade to encircle the district and not let anyone cross in front of it - even if you're pregnant and in labor...

Woody

 

[tRidiot]

Way to go.

 

[mugsy]

It was a surprisingly clear and rational decision. So many legal decisions seem like nothing more than exercises in linguistic gymnastics designed to bedazzle and amaze while obscuring and obfuscating (see what I did there?) that this one in contrast was elegant in its simplicity. Now we'll see if D.C. complies or tries the Chicago route of increasingly Byzantine laws designed to ignore the Court decision in fact while complying with it in theory.

 

[AKJ20]

Link to the actual decision

http://alangura.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DCT_OPINION.pdf