Constitutional Law
Plaintiff Who Won Second Amendment Case Files New Gun Suit
Posted Jul 29, 2008, 12:14 pm CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The plaintiff who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on handguns in the home has filed a new lawsuit challenging Washington, D.C.’s new gun registration system.
Plaintiff Dick Heller seeks to overturn provisions that include a requirement for ballistics tests of registered handguns and restrictions on semiautomatic handguns, the Washington Post reports.
Heller was turned down when he tried to register a .45-caliber Colt semiautomatic handgun on the ground that it was a banned machine gun, the story says.
The suit also challenges the District’s gun registration fee and requirements that firearms be kept unloaded or equipped with trigger locks in the home, the Associated Press reports.
The Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller found an individual right under the Second Amendment to own a handgun for self-defense in the home.
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Posted by associate - 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes ago
Interesting. So now they’re just going to declare everything a “machine gun”.
If DC doesn’t follow the law as laid down by the Supreme Court, they’re about to do more harm than good to their own gun-grabbing ways.
The very real threat (to gun laws) is exactly this; when someone tries to register a very common, run of the mill gun and they declare it a “machine gun”, the supreme court will be forced into nullifying their “assault weapons” and “machine gun” bans.