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D.C. Gun Ban
Group forms to oppose continued District ban on semiautomatic weapons
- A group of D.C. residents, workers and college students have organized a gun rights group to press Congress and the D.C. Council to overturn the city’s continued ban on semiautomatic firearms and to streamline or eliminate the registration process.
Gun stores mostly limited to downtown, for now
- Firearms dealers who apply for a D.C. location will be largely restricted to high density commercial areas downtown and kept at least two football fields away from where people live, play and pray, according to emergency rules now in place.
Plaintiff in gun ban case sues D.C. over new laws
- The man whose lawsuit successfully overturned the District’s ban on handguns filed a new suit Monday charging the city with violating the spirit of the Supreme Court’s historic decision.
First to register handgun, owner 'doesn't fit' profile
- Amy McVey didn’t seem like the typical D.C. gun owner, at least not to the reporters who stood outside the Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday, the first day handguns could be registered in the District after the city’s 32-year ban.
Plaintiff in D.C. gun case sent away at registration
- The plaintiff whose historic Supreme Court case overturned the District’s ban on handguns will try again to register his revolver this morning after police turned him away for not having the weapon with him.
Council OKs rules on handgun possession
- The D.C. Council on Tuesday opened the door for law-abiding District residents to keep a handgun in their homes for self-defense, lifting a three-decade-old ban that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional.
D.C. handgun ban to be lifted, but obtaining a firearm may be tough
- District residents may be able to register a handgun as soon as today, as the D.C. Council is expected to adopt emergency legislation lifting the 32-year-old firearm ban and replacing it with regulations allowing pistols in the home for self-defense.
- District residents may be able to register a handgun as soon as today, as the D.C. Council is expected to adopt emergency legislation lifting the 32-year-old firearm ban and replacing it with regulations allowing pistols in the home for self-defense.
Councilman urges gun law passage
- D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson is brushing aside warnings from Adrian Fenty’s administration to back away from gun-control legislation, and is urging his colleagues to adopt emergency laws next week.
Nickles asks council to hold off on revising gun rules
- An attempt to redraft D.C.’s gun laws in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling misfired Wednesday when Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration boycotted a council hearing and asked a councilman via letter to put the legislation on hold.
Council moves today to relax District’s firearm restrictions
- D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson will propose today tweaking the District’s gun laws to repeal the ban on handguns and allow residents to register and possess working, loaded firearms in their homes.
D.C. officials say not so fast to handgun possession
- D.C. residents hoping to legally bring a handgun into their home will have to wait a little longer, District officials said.
- D.C. residents hoping to legally bring a handgun into their home will have to wait a little longer, District officials said.
Ruling thrusts gun issue into White House race
- The Supreme Court moved the Second Amendment to the forefront of the presidential campaign with a ruling upholding the right of individuals to own guns.
D.C. handgun ban struck down
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declared that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their homes for self-defense, a landmark decision ending D.C.’s long-standing handgun ban in favor of an individual’s right to bear arms.
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declared that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their homes for self-defense, a landmark decision ending D.C.’s long-standing handgun ban in favor of an individual’s right to bear arms.
