DC Ready to Defend Gun Ban Before the Supreme Court!
The noted attorney who will argue the case for the District says it's a reasonable law and not a total ban on guns... and therefore not a violation of the Second Amendment's protection of the people's right to keep and bear arms. Walter Dellinger says DC Citizens can still keep shotguns and rifles in their homes with the proper permits.
Dellinger, former US Solicitor General and now in private practice helped file the government's final brief on Wednesday with the Supreme Court-the last step before the March 18th showdown with opponents of the ban on handguns in the home.
A lower court has sided with citizens who oppose the ban..oral arguments, beginning at 10:a.m will last about an hour with an audio transcript made available shortly after that...
Karen Wiggins, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Firearm Examination Branch produced a number of recovered handguns for this reporter on Wednesday..as she skillfully disassembled the Glocks, Smith and Wessons and other semiautomatics, she reeled off a number of facts; about twenty three hundred weapons seized last year--more than eighty percent of them used in street crimes.
Police say if the Supreme Court allows handguns in the home more people will be injured and more guns will be stolen and end up on the streets.
The District's Acting Attorney General, Peter Nickles, lives in Northern Virginia, but agrees with the administration's position on handguns in the home. He doesn't own a handgun although he could in Virginia.
Mayor Fenty says he's convinced a majority of citizens support the ban.
Click here to watch Bruce's Gun Ban Report.
posted by Bruce Johnson @ 2:25 PM
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I hope the Supreme Court will agree with U.S. Court of Appeals Bruce!
http://dccabbie.blogspot.com/2008/03/whos-gun-is-this.html
Mad Cabbie, I've been a juror on cases made by the MPD Gun Squad, and most of the folks in DC with unregistered handguns are drug dealers, thieves, and thugs protecting themselves from other drug dealers, thieves, and thugs. These folks are not good marksmen, nor are pistols very accurate. The result makes handguns a public health menace in our city. Pistols belong in the hands of sworn police officers, no one else. If other jurisdictions want to ignore the clear evidence of 30,000 annual U.S. gunshot deaths, let them pass their own local laws. We have ours.
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