Several Washington, D.C., and Virginia residents are suing the nation’s capital for prohibiting carrying concealed firearms on its public transportation busses and metro lines.
Three residents of D.C. and one Virginian filed a joint lawsuit last week demanding the city’s ban on concealed weapons on public transit be scrapped, according to the DCist. The group filed the suit following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which found a New York law limiting concealed carry licenses to those who could show “good moral character” and “proper cause” unconstitutional.
“Given the decisions in Bruen and Heller, The District of Columbia may not ban the keeping and bearing of arms for self-defense that are not unusually dangerous, deny individuals the right to carry arms in non-sensitive places, deny individuals of the right to keep and carry arms in an arbitrary and capricious manner, or impose regulations on the right to keep and carry arms that are inconsistent with the Second Amendment and the historical tradition of firearms regulation in the United States,” the lawsuit states.
“The regulation at issue in this case, runs afoul of the Second Amendment because it lacks any historical justification, is arbitrary and capricious, and unnecessarily infringes on the core right of self-protection,” it continues.
D.C. currently prohibits the open carrying of handguns and has numerous restrictions on where someone who is concealed carrying may go. The ban on concealed carry covers all public transportation as well as government buildings, the National Mall, hospitals, schools, universities, any business where alcohol is consumed, and others.
Whatever DC, you are not a state so your wants needs are canceled.
Boris from the pond is resigning – WOW. Now if Rickie would do the same. Raining mid week seems to now be the norm, along with vacancies galore here on the island. Nothing has changed on that front, been lime this for the last 10 yrs. Build build build too much, charge too much and of course vacancies would be the norm. Just imagine the money made IF this place would be packed mid week like the yesteryear!
Times have changed and change is badly needed come November. Nationally amd locally.
Until then, lather rinse and repeat.
Now back to discussing DC, which is very lame.