As we mentioned yesterday, gun sales in the District will officially kick off next Tuesday, Sept. 9. But the city's only licensed gun seller so far won't actually be selling guns, he'll just be facilitating transfers from guns purchased in other states. So what about gun shops? In June we predicted that no matter what the Supreme Court's ruling said, the battle over guns in the District would boil down to where they could actually......

On Wednesday WTOP's Mark Segraves reported that handgun sales will officially start in the District next Tuesday, Sept. 9 — just in time for primary election day! There are still no gun stores inside city limits, so the only guns that have been registered in D.C. so far were either registered under the amnesty program or were being stored out-of-state, since federal law requires that new gun purchases must either originate from or be transferred......

Dick Heller, the man who sued to overturn D.C.'s handgun ban, arrives by bicycle to pick up his gun registration today. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Post caught Dick Heller, original plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court court case that eventually made it legal for D.C. residents to own handguns for personal security, picking up his handgun registration certificate this morning. Heller, a security guard, may now legally keep the gun he registered in his......

Dick Heller's quick to the draw with his legal filings. While his original complaint against the city -- the handgun ban -- took years to work its way through the courts and resulted in the recent historic Supreme Court ruling against the restrictions, Heller is moving much more quickly these days to make sure that he can exercise his Second Amendment rights. According to City Desk, Heller has filed a lawsuit against the city challenging......

They say that it's good to never give up, but would someone send Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) a memo telling him that sometimes it's cool to throw in the towel? According to a press release issued yesterday by DC Vote, Souder is looking to re-introduce legislation that would do away with the District's gun laws. Didn't the Supreme Court recently rule that the city's gun ban was unconstitutional, and didn't the police recently start registering......

Via the WSJ Law Blog, click here to download a PDF from the Smith & Wesson company web site announcing their intention to create a commemorative revolver laser engraved with the words "D.C. vs. Heller" on a scale of justice, tipped toward Heller.As part of the project, an engraved Smith & Wesson Model 442 revolver will be presented to each of the six plaintiffs - Shelly Parker, Tom Palmer, Gillian St. Lawrence, Tracey Ambeau, George......

The Examiner catches up with Amy McVey, the first person to legally register a handgun in the District of Columbia since the Heller decision. That we didn't know until today that McVey successfully registered a gun is embarrassing for local reporters: apparently all the journalists waiting around on Thursday to see who would be the first to register a gun didn't notice McVey walking in to the registration office because she's a woman.......

Great report from Dave Weigel over at Reason's Hit and Run blog on original D.C. handgun ban plaintiff Dick Heller's return to the District's gun registration office this morning. What happened yesterday was Heller showed up to register his 1911 single-action Colt .22 revolver, but he didn't bring it with him, and the police told him to come back with the gun. Weigel reports that Heller met with "partial success" today. Police took his......

If you agree with some of the commenters in the Roundup that WUSA's account of Dick Heller's experience at the District's gun registration office this morning was a little confusing, seems like you're probably right. D.C. Wire has what appears to be a better report that Heller didn't even bring a gun with him to register this morning, but instead expressed "his frustrations with the District's continued ban on semiautomatic weapons." What's up with that......

Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council, along with Attorney General Peter Nickles and Police Chief Cathy Lanier, announced the details of early legislation that will regulate the registration and storage of handguns in post-Heller D.C. “We continue to take every step we can to minimize handgun violence in the District,” said Mayor Fenty. “We must prevent handguns from falling into the wrong hands or being misused, while allowing District residents to exercise their Second......

Despite warnings from both city officials and your trusted bloggers at DCist, it looks like District residents were visiting gun shops over the weekend in Virginia and Maryland to try to take advantage of their freshly interpreted Second Amendment rights. Fortunately, as the Post reports, gun store owners are holding off on taking advantage of the new business -- they're waiting to see what regulations the city eventually chooses to impose on the purchase and......

So there we have it -- the U.S. Supreme Court finally issued a definitive ruling on what the Second Amendment actually means. But what will it mean for the District in a more practical sense? For now, not much. At the big press conference at noon, Mayor Adrian Fenty made the following remarks: “I’m disappointed in the Court’s ruling and believe introducing more handguns into the District will mean more handgun violence,” said Mayor Fenty.......

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled this morning to uphold an appellate ruling that says the District of Columbia's 32-year-old handgun ban is unconstitutional. The decision in District of Columbia v. Heller was written by Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg. The ruling clarifies the court's position that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own firearms, instead of only protecting a collective right for states to......

It's been a long four months for both anti- and pro-gun advocates since the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the District's infamously restrictive gun laws. And though the court is coming to the end of their session, we're all still waiting to see what's to come of the District's gun laws. The Supreme Court released opinions on Monday and this morning, and on both days anticipation ran high for the possibility......

Walter Dellinger has argued before the Supreme Court on many occasions. In fact, according to a Post profile of the lawyer and academic, he's been in front of the nine justices often this year -- three times in the last four weeks. And while yesterday's argument may have been one of the most historic, it probably wasn't the most fun. Dellinger, who argued for the District in yesterday's ground-breaking case on the Second Amendment, didn't......

Since we couldn't get into the Supreme Court itself and hardly consider ourselves legal experts, we're going to...link to someone else that's live-blogging the audio proceedings. The folks at SCOTUSBlog have been doing a fantastic job summarizing the main arguments, describing the key legal issues, and generally keeping us all up-to-date on the legal machinations that escape simpletons like us. They'll be live-blogging the audio, which is being broadcast on CSPAN. So if you're not......

A little more than a year separates when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Circuit first called the District's gun laws unconstitutional, and the final test those laws will face today before the U.S. Supreme Court. And in a matter of hours, the case will have been heard, the audio of the proceedings will be released, and months of conjecture will fill the space until the justices actually issue a final ruling. At......

With the March 18 hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the D.C. gun ban fast approaching, there's been a lot of news we've missed. Supremes to Release Audio: While the publicity-phobic Supreme Court has never been much of a fan of making its hearings more easily accessible to the American people, the justices have announced that they will make recordings of the proceedings available on the same day they hear the......

The Post is reporting today that a majority of the members of Congress have filed a brief before the Supreme Court arguing that the District's gun ban should be ruled unconstitutional. All told, 305 members -- 55 in the Senate; 250 in the House, 68 of them Democrats -- signed on to the brief, which was pushed by famous gun enthusiast Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.). The brief argues: ...historically Congress has interpreted the Second......

When District lawyers face the Supreme Court in March to defend the city's ban on handguns, they'll not only be fighting to save a local policy -- they'll also be asking the court to decide whether the Second Amendment protects gun ownership in an individual capacity or only under the auspices of a state-run militia. Last Friday the District submitted its brief to the court, laying out in 79 pages why the District needs the......