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 a number of provisions of the new regulations imposed by Mayor Adrian Fenty in the wake of the court’s ruling. The suit takes issue with the effective ban of semiautomatic pistols by classifying them all as “machine guns.” It also argues that the District’s registration process is unduly “onerous,” and takes issue with the whole “reasonably perceived threat of immediate harm” stuff for when a gun can be legally loaded that seemed right off the bat to be asking for this kind of lawsuit.

This move was largely expected, but props to Heller and his legal team for being this fast with getting the suit filed. The sooner this whole mess gets resolved, the sooner we’ll know what’s allowed and what’s not. And if the courts can do this at the request of a District resident, maybe Congress will call off its annual D.C. gun law-changing party.