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Lawsuit Claims Gun Rules Violate Supreme Court Ruling
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 28, 2008 03:32pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, July 28, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Del Quentin Wilber and Paul Duggan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, July 28, 2008; 1:50 PM
The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the Supreme Court filed a new federal lawsuit this morning, alleging that the District's new gun-registration system is unreasonably burdensome and improperly outlaws most semiautomatic pistols.
Dick A. Heller, a 66-year-old security guard who lives on Capitol Hill, and two other plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit that the D.C. government violated the letter and the spirit of the landmark Supreme Court decision, issued June 26, that struck down the District's decades-old handgun ban.
The 5-to-4 ruling concluded that the Second Amendment grants individuals the right to possess guns for self-defense, but said that governments may impose reasonable restrictions. The lawsuit filed today alleges that the District's restrictions are not reasonable.
The city's handgun-registration process is limited almost entirely to revolvers because a D.C. law that bans machine guns includes a broad definition of such weapons, encompassing most semiautomatic pistols. That law has been in place for decades and was not a focus of the Supreme Court case. |
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