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D.C. Considers Law Changes To Comply With Justices' Gun Ruling

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime & Justice News

"Washington, D.C., gun owners would be able to keep

weapons in their homes, loaded and without trigger

locks, for 'immediate self-defense' under legislation

being introduced today by D.C. Council Judiciary

Committee chairman Phil Mendelson, the Washington

Post reports. The bill would repeal the city's 32-year-

old ban on handguns, which was struck down last

week by the U.S. Supreme Court, 5 to 4.

The legislation would require a ballistics record for

registered handguns and a waiting period for

registration. The length of the waiting period would be

determined by the D.C. police chief. Lawyer Alan Gura,

who successfully argued against the handgun ban

before the Supreme Court, said the waiting period for

legal firearms -- rifles and shotguns -- is

already 'onerous and kind of odd.' An instant

background check should be incorporated into the

city's new laws, he said. Gura is concerned about the

city's decision to continue a ban on semiautomatic

weapons, which he said is unconstitutional.'"

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