Supreme Court decides handgun rights case

[Niner]

Chicago loses round one. They can't ban people from having handguns in their homes for self protection. City officials plan on working on new laws to limit handgun ownership.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010 ... dment.html

[DuncaninFrance]

Here's an article in the Daily Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -arms.html

[dhtaxi]

Pass.

[Niner]

Since the 2008 ruling, Washington DC has imposed a series of regulations on handgun ownership, including requirements to register weapons and to submit to a multiple-choice test, fingerprinting and a ballistics test.

All gun owners must show they have undertaken classroom instruction on handling a gun and have spent at least an hour on the firing range. Only about 800 people have registered handguns in Washington DC, which has a population of 600,000.

The above from Duncan's link.

Back in the day, the Poll Tax and the literacy tests that were imposed in the South to discourage black voter participation was eventually rightfully judged unconstitutional. Looks like what DC is doing is the same kind of underhanded thing but aimed at all gun owners to discourage them from owning guns. Wonder what the next test will be to owning handguns....or any guns?

I'm glad I still live in a state that has a long gun rights history and is likely to continue that way........for a while.

[Aughnanure]

Have a look at this as well, some very pertinent figures on Washigton, DC.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/06/ ... sotomayor/

I really like the outcome of the dire predictions.

[The Virginian]

I live not far from Washington, DC on the right side of the river in Virginia, but there is no comparison, DC has much more gun violence since the 1976 ban and still does, but now since citizens there can arm themselves, violent crime has lowered. How about that! I know Dick Heller the plantiff in the Heller case and he is moving forward to go after the city again for unreasonable restrictions on a Constitutional Right to Bear Arms. He is a real trooper and I am glad to know him.