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Sep 09, 2021

In New Lawsuit, D.C. Gun Advocates Take Aim At Restrictions On ‘Ghost Guns’

Three D.C. residents say that the city’s law on “ghost guns” is vague and overbroad, potentially ensnaring otherwise legal guns and gun owners.

Aug 18, 2008

Heller’s Got a Gun

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…

Jul 28, 2008

Heller Fires Second Lawsuit at District

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…

Jul 18, 2008

Dick Heller Shoots From the Hip

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…

Jul 17, 2008

Heller Plans to Run Against Eleanor Holmes Norton

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…

 
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