A bill that would make it easier for residents to register handguns moved through a D.C. Council committee today, and if it passes the full council hopeful gun owners will no longer have to complete a five-hour training class, submit to a vision test or give up their gun for a ballistics test. The law would also allow the District's mayor to act as a federally licensed firearms dealer if the sole dealer in the District goes out of business, as happened briefly last year. more ›

Emily Miller is finally going to get her gun, and she wants to tell the D.C. Council how difficult the whole process was. more ›

Just as Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) proposed in October that restrictions on gun stores be eased, today he introduced legislation that would make the process of buying and registering a gun simpler for District residents. more ›

You too could carry a concealed weapon in the District, if a delegation of Illinois congressmen has their way. more ›

During a press conference this morning, Mayor Vince Gray revealed that the District's gun drought will soon be broken: Charles Sykes, the only person registered to sell and transfer guns inside the District, will soon open up shop inside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department. more ›

This morning, At-Large D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson introduced a bill which would slightly alter the waiting period for residents wishing to register a handgun inside the District. Under current regulations, Washingtonians seeking to register a handgun must wait 10 days after applying for registration; Mendelson's bill, in effect for the next 90 days, changes that requirement to a 10-day waiting period after the point of purchase. Mendelson introduced the bill after the city's lone operating federal registrar, Charles Sykes, lost his lease, rendering him currently unable to process new registrations. more ›

Looking to register a handgun in the District of Columbia? You're currently out of luck: Mark Segraves reports that there's a "temporary, de facto ban" on registration because the city's lone gun registrar has stopped taking orders after he lost his lease. more ›

With all the legislative back and forth over the District's evolving gun regulations since the Supreme Court deemed the city's handgun ban unconstitutional last summer, it's understandable that we'd all be confused as to how one goes about registering a gun. The Metropolitan Police Department has published a guide that attempts to clear up the process. more ›

Late last week the Examiner delved into one of the remaining unanswered questions standing between D.C. residents and the handguns they are now allowed to have -- the stores where they can buy them. more ›

One relatively early vote from yesterday's marathon final D.C. Council legislative session of the year was the approval of a number of changes to the District's ever-evolving gun laws. (Quick aside: Must the Council always pull out these last-minute legislate-a-thons? They often make for bad laws, not to mention force local scribes to try to fit far too many votes into far too few words. And now back to our regularly scheduled post.) more ›

Ever since the Supreme Court ordered the District to allow gun ownership, we've heard any number of proposed regulations on how to get them, where to store them, when to use them and how to carry them. Today in the Post one reader proposes something a little different -- gun liability insurance:

The D.C. Council should require all gun owners in the District to obtain gun liability insurance. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an individual right to own firearms, but it did not say that jurisdictions cannot regulate guns in a way similar to how cars are regulated. A study by P.J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, professors at Duke University and the University of Chicago, shows the direct and indirect costs of handgun violence exceed $100 billion a year. more ›

Hoping to head off an effort by Congress that would gut the District's new gun regulations completely, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced yesterday that he was proposing a number of changes to mollify pro-gun activists unhappy with the current restrictions. more ›