Photo by Samer Farha Is there a parliamentary term for beating a dead horse? Because if there is, the Senate appears to be doing just that. Just a week after an amendment designed to gut the District’s gun laws effectively sunk legislation that would have granted the city a voting seat in the U.S. House, two senators are planning to go ahead and introduce stand-alone legislation doing away with many of the District’s existing…

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…

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…

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….

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…