It was bound to happen.
“You’ve just officially become a Dixie Chick. CONGRATULATIONS.”
A gun-rights group has sent letters to small Maryland towns asking that they change specific anti-gun ordinances.
Gun owners in Virginia will be heading to Starbucks en masse today as a means to express their appreciation to the coffee chain for allowing them to carry guns in stores.
A proposal by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to allow residents of other states with conceal carry permits to similarly carry concealed weapons in the District failed today in a surprising 24-3-1 vote, with a large number of Republicans siding with Democrats in opposition.
It looks like Virginia’s gunnin’ for a fight — pun intended. According to WTOP, Virginia has filed a brief in the Supreme Court challenging the District’s gun ban, joining a number of states that are picking sides in what may be a historic decision on the reach of the Second Amendment. The case, which will be heard in March, could have a wide-reaching effect on gun laws and regulations nationwide. According to Virginia Attorney…
The Supreme Court has announced that it will take on Heller v. District of Columbia, the D.C. handgun case, and decide whether our city’s ban on handguns violates the Constitution. The Court will likely hear the case sometime in March, with a decision to come later in the session. The case will mark the first time the Court has taken up the meaning of the Second Amendment in almost 70 years, and the decision could…
…ummm, nothing yet. According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court failed to reach a decision on whether or not to hear a case related to the District’s gun laws. Though a verdict from last week’s conference discussion was possible today, it seems that the nine justices haven’t yet decided if they want to take the case, which stems from a March decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Circuit that ruled…
In the coming weeks District officials will find out whether a Court of Appeals decision that found the city’s gun laws unconstitutional will stand or whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Mayor Adrian Fenty’s appeal. According to SCOTUSBlog, the justices of the Supreme Court will debate whether or not to take the case on November 9. Should they choose to, the two sides would argue before the court in February or March; otherwise,…
Mayor Adrian Fenty has announced the city has formally filed an appeal to the Supreme Court in the hopes that it will overturn a March decision in which a lower court found that the District’s ban on handguns was unconstitutional. Though the appeal has been a month in the making, Fenty and D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer today explained their reasoning in an op-ed published in the Post. In it, they reject the individual right…
