As gun rights advocates celebrated Monday as the former assault-weapons ban lapsed and was not renewed, there is new attention on the District’s strict firearms possession rules. The Post is reporting that there is a majority in the House getting behind a measure, the D.C. Personal Protection Act, that could drastically change D.C.’s gun regulations.

… [It] would end a ban on handguns in the nation’s capital; remove a prohibition against semiautomatic weapons; lift registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms; and cancel criminal penalties for possessing unregistered firearms and carrying a handgun in one’s home or workplace.

The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Mark Souder, an Indiana Republican who lives in Northern Virginia, said that the gun measure is not a home rule issue. “This is a constitutional issue, not a home rule question,” Souder tells the Post. “The fact is, we didn’t allow the District to have home rule on the selling of slaves, either.”