U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina has ruled that the District of Columbia’s post-Heller gun laws are indeed constitutional.
In a decision handed down today, Urbina rejected assertions from Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the original Supreme Court case, et al., that the District’s strict gun registration laws violate the spirit of the 2008 Heller ruling. Instead, Urbina wrote, the D.C. government did everything it was supposed to do:
Because the Council provided ample evidence of the ways in which the registration requirements will effectuate the goal of promoting public safety, and because public safety is a quintessential matter of public regulation, the court concludes that there is at least a substantial nexus between the registration requirements and the important governmental interest underlying those requirements.
The entire decision is posted below.
