The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals order expedites the appeal.

A 30-day suspended sentence with six months probation.

A day after a shooting at the D.C. offices of the Family Research Council, Mayor Vince Gray defended the city’s restrictive gun laws.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.