DC has lost "another" Gun Rights case

[RamRoddoc]

The slow restoration of rights where the worst offenders of the constitution reside.

Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, D.C. has lost*another*gun case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—one that involves the very same plaintiff, Dick Heller.

In the latest case,*Heller v. District of Columbia, a three-judge panel has thrown out several gun registration requirements that were clearly intended to discourage gun ownership and make it more difficult to own a gun in the nation’s capital.

The appellate court also threw out D.C.’s requirement that gun ownersre-register*their guns every three years. None of the so-called “public safety” reasons the city put forward for this requirement made any sense.

The court did uphold the city’s requirement that gun owners take a one-hour firearms safety course. However, the court threw out a requirement that gun owners be tested on their knowledge of the District’s gun laws.

the court struck down the District’s “only-one-pistol-per-month” rule. The city council banned the registration of “more than one pistol per registrant during any 30-day period,”

Read the full story:
http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/25/dc-has-lost-another-gun-rights-case/

 

[chucklenut]

Why do elected officials continue to waste time and money on frivolous suits that restrict citizens rights?

The city attorney(s) should br fired

 

[boxer90]

Why do elected officials continue to waste time and money on frivolous suits that restrict citizens rights?

The city attorney(s) should br fired

That's simple: they fear what they don't understand. You have to understand the positions of these Democrats.

1. They, for the most part, live in urban areas.
2. High crime rates in urban areas.
3. They don't want it spreading to their posh neighborhoods.
4. And they can't say "it's the black people" because that's one of their key voting blocs.
5. Washington DC has a lot of black folk

Gun laws are a way they can circumvent the whole "black people" thing while still keeping guns out of the hands of black folk, and everyone else gets wrapped up as collateral damage. Dems don't know how to exist outside of their bubble. Historically when they've pushed gun control, that's been the reason. Army/Navy laws, GCA 1968, import bans, etc. Meanwhile in the South we're called the racists of the country yet average whites and average blacks have gotten along better than anywhere else in the US. Public safety is code word for "keeping guns away from blacks in the bad part of the town." There's also an extension of that because of the politicians living in DC want to be protected against "commoners", but it all falls back to restricting rights to the most elite of social classes.

Kind of ironic given that for a very long time, the NRA shooting range in Washington DC was one of the few integrated places in "progressive" Washington DC, yet the Dems have done a good job in turning the organization into a boogeyman. And, of course, they're too stupid to realize that any of the "undesirables" they wish to disarm will just travel to Virginia and West Virginia to get their guns.