Court: DC’s “good reason” restriction ain’t good enough
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the District of Columbia’s “may issue” restriction that a citizen needs a “good reason” to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the district didn’t meet the Supreme Court’s intentions in Heller v. US, according to the Washington Times;
“In Heller, the Supreme Court’s unequivocally [sic] asserted that ‘the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,’ ” Judge Leon wrote. “The District’s understandable, but overly zealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the Justices had in mind.”
A screen shot from the opinion, called Pink Pistols v. DC – the whole thing is at the Washington Post;
Leon’s ruling is a preliminary injunction that prevents the District’s police chief from denying permits to folks who can’t prove a good enough reason to request a permit. Other states, like Maryland, face the same types of treatment in the courts. In Maryland, the state police require proof that an applicant is in imminent danger before they can apply for a permit.
Category: Guns
Oh great, another so called victory for you Gun Nutz. Another American city that will be flooded with gun crazed loons milling about.
I guess they will be like West Virginia soon, every toddler will be packing heat.
You realize that there are already guns flooding the streets of DC, right?
People that buy firearms illegally don’t give two shits whether or not they break the law. All this does, is give the average law abiding citizen the ability to protect themselves in an already dangerous environment.
Methings DH’s remarks above were pure sarcasm, Atkron.
Dammit…never mind.
Oops, you’ve fallen into Dave’s sarcasm trap. He likes to do this frequently.
‘Ol Dave set out an armed sarcasm mine and YOU stepped on it!?
Damn it, I never get to play with the other kids.
It’s their parents Dave. They know you don’t play well with others.
Dave,
Next time, please add the (/sarc) tag for the easily confused.
So if I add a (/sarc) tag, does that mean it is not sarcastic? Is it one of those negative times a negative things? Or, is it like the square root of a negative one, where we just make up shit as we go? Its all so confusing, like that hypotenuse leg theorem.
Just curious about these things. For example, is the square of “i” -1?
AYE!
Hypotenuse leg theorem… is that an Airborne joke or something?
I think you would have to change your name to and then we would know everything that follows is sarcasm unless you use the /sarc tag.
lol the html compliant sarc tag didn’t post. It must have tried to execute it found no operation to execute and just carried on.
Oh sweet Jesus….who let the goddamned atheist out and off his meds?
So…if they don’t have enough “proof” that they are in imminent danger, and show up dead, I guess then the morons in charge will issue a permit posthumously??
The tides are slowly changing. Even the 9th issued a gun friendly ruling the other day.
Wonder if Obama’s influence is finally waning with the liberal courts…
The end of an error is near.
It may be the end of the world! I never thought I would see the 9th Circuit issue such a decision.
“Just as we have a duty to treat with suspicion governmental encroachments on the right of citizens to engage in political speech or to practice their religion, we must exert equal diligence in ensuring that the right of the people to keep and to bear arms is not undermined by hostile regulatory measures.”
That was from the majority, 9th Circuit decision in Teixeira v. County of Alameda. Here’s a direct link to the decision. http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/05/16/13-17132.pdf
Had this song pop into my head. I saw this band live back in the day.
I wonder what the gun-grabbers are going to say about this? I sincerely hope that this is the beginning of a counterswing to the right, Gun Control Laws are a violent criminal’s best friend.
The gun-grabbers will scream that “blood will run in the DC streets!”
Everyone else will reply, “So, how would that be different from DC right now?”
I remember hearing and seeing bleeding-heart-on-the-sleeve liberal moonbats screech, howl and bawl about the imminent bloodbaths to come every time another State passed a Concealed Carry Law and the opposite happened every time, violent crime rates plummeted instead and goblins still continue to get ventilated by their intended victims.
Here in Texas most recently it was blood running in the streets due to open carry. Almost 6 months later not only no blood in the streets, have not seen ONE person open carrying…
Here in Slammintonio I saw a really fat guy open carrying a little .22 a few weeks back. Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Pink Pistols is a good organization…it teaches a minority group that has taken some serious beatings and teaches them to defend themselves with lethal force.
A lot harder to victimize someone when they blow your fucking head off…
I’m glad that the courts have recognized that restricting essential rights based on the douchebag opinion of a bureaucrat is completely at odds with our Constitution.
Which is why you’ll never, ever hear liberals mention that organization.
It’s funny how many of them call the NRA racist and even equate it to the KKK. Then all you have to do is bring up that little bit of history about how during Jim Crow (which the democrats enforced) the NRA had a similar program to arm and train black men to defend their homes and families from attackers, and that the program was quite effective, and that democrats back then railed against the NRA “arming negroes.”
Really shoots their “racist white good-ol’-boys” concept right in the ass. I’ve yet to meet a libtard who could rebut that one.
Well said, I agree that those on the left have an amazing ability to ignore those inconvenient facts…but our rights are our birthright and are not granted by the government. The concept our rights are to be protected from the government and not by the government is something that extreme right and extreme left struggle to comprehend in their efforts to control the population to their whims…the left is worse in my opinion, but I’ve met a few far right evangelical types who love to explain how they’d like to rule a christian nation…that makes me as uncomfortable as the goddamn liberals wanting to “help” me.
That’s the hardest thing for these numbnuts to understand…
Send them a check and receive a 10 fold bounty, FROM GOD! You know you want to VOV.
So on Jan1 of this year, my state (Tejas) enacted open carry.
In our local facebook neighborhood group, someone finally reported an open carry sighting! It was a dude on a bicycle at the local lake bike trail, legally practicing his right to keep and bear arms as protected by the 2nd Amendment. Oh the horror and outrage, although no one was shot either accidentally or intentionally. When it was pointed out that on this same trail recently, a middle aged white male jogger had been killed and decapitated with a machete by someone who was probably (temporarily) insane, the response was: “that was an isolated event that almost never happens.” As you know, I love irony.
Word.
For me, rather than irony the phrase “stuck on stupid” comes to mind.
Yeah, well, I don’t care to be on the receiving end of one of those “isolated events.”
An armed society is a polite society.
Good reason?
How about “I would like to assert my 2nd Amendment Rights as afforded me by the US Constitution.”
Application Approved.
correction – your NATURAL rights to self defense as enumerated in the Second Amendment – they are not given by the 2nd.
What is given is subject to being taken away.
Chances are if DC Chief Lanier decides to play along (as if THAT would ever happen), she’d make sure its more difficult than it is now to apply for and be approved for a conceal-carry license.
If she has it her way, it’d take 5 years to get a license in that city.
Just my opinion.
The application will have to be submitted in person, at an office that’s always “temporarily” closed.
That’s OK, DC will appeal again and again to drag their entry into the post-Civil War Era out for another five years. Just like Maryland, whose nonsensical laws DC’s were modeled on.
No kidding. The only reason my transfer went through as quickly as it did was because there was a court case going on where Maryland had dragged their feet for a year on three people buying guns. One of whom was an active duty Soldier.
Really wish I could get the hell out of here.