Washington DC Tries to Thwart the Supreme Court’s Handgun Ban Decision

Washington DC officials who are now trying to write gun control legislation to combat the Supreme Court’s decision that DC’s handgun ban is unconstitutional are now running into some problems. It seems that the controls that they are trying to implement are the same ones that the Supreme Court already said are unconstitutional. Not only that but they may violate the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms points to a section of the new ordinance requiring that “Each registrant shall keep any firearm in his or her possession unloaded and either disassembled or secured by a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device.”

 This is a direct violation of part of the Supreme Court’s ruling:

 “The court struck down the city’s trigger lock requirement, and ruled that it is unconstitutional to require that firearms be rendered inoperable at all times in the home,” he said.

 In addition to the total disregard to the Supreme Court ruling there is also the fact that the new laws would discriminate against a person with a disability.

 people registering handguns “not appear to suffer from a physical defect which would make it unsafe for him to possess and use a firearm safely and responsibly.”

 That part of the new law led to this response:

I am wondering if the persons who dreamed up these outrageous guidelines ever heard of the Americans With Disabilities Act. In their attempt to make owning handguns as difficult and discouraging as possible for residents of the District, the people responsible for this regulation have just insulted millions of disabled Americans, including disabled veterans, who are perfectly capable of owning and using firearms,” Waldron said.

Washington DC officials clearly do not believe what the Supreme Court ruled, and that is the fact that the people have the right to keep and bear arms. They are now doing everything in their power to turn their backs on the Supreme Court’s ruling. They show utter contempt for the right to bear arms and do not care if the ruling that just came down reinforces the right. They believe what they believe, and it doesn’t matter what the constitution says.

 The scary part of this whole issue is the fact that the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 for the people’s right to keep and bear arms. A very narrow victory. With several members of the Supreme Court in their seventies President Obama will have more than one nomination to the Supreme Court. We can kiss this decision goodbye.

 It will be overturned.