D.C. on verge of new gun law
NRA lobbyist calls legislation 'a joke'
David C. Lipscomb and Gary Emerling
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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The District, rebuffed by the Supreme Court last month in a landmark decision on its 32-year-old gun ban, could soon be headed back to court over a new gun law that could take effect as early as Wednesday.
The D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on emergency legislation that will require handgun owners to keep their weapons disassembled or under lock and key in what gun rights advocates see as direct defiance of the Supreme Court ruling.
That ruling said the District could not bar residents from "rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense."
Some interpreted that language at the time as prohibiting any requirement for gun locks.
TWT Editorial: Gun law shenanigans
NRA lobbyist calls legislation 'a joke'
David C. Lipscomb and Gary Emerling
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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The District, rebuffed by the Supreme Court last month in a landmark decision on its 32-year-old gun ban, could soon be headed back to court over a new gun law that could take effect as early as Wednesday.
The D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on emergency legislation that will require handgun owners to keep their weapons disassembled or under lock and key in what gun rights advocates see as direct defiance of the Supreme Court ruling.
That ruling said the District could not bar residents from "rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense."
Some interpreted that language at the time as prohibiting any requirement for gun locks.
TWT Editorial: Gun law shenanigans