http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/dc-ban-on-semiauto-handgu_b_109589.html
So says this gun control proponent
So says this gun control proponent
The reason for this is that the Court's ruling does not affect the District's ban on "machine guns," which under DC law includes any gun "which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading." This definition includes virtually all semiautomatic handguns. As a result, the District's ban can remain in force for those types of handguns. In essence, the Court's ruling for the most part will only affect revolvers and derringers.
Yesterday's decision flips legal logic and common sense on its head. As measured in gun death and injury, handguns are our nation's most lethal category of firearm: accounting for the vast majority of the 30,000 Americans who die from guns each year. They are also our nation's leading murder and suicide tool. Yet the majority opinion offers the greatest offender the strongest legal protection. It's analogous to the Court carving out special constitutional protection for child pornography in a First Amendment case.
Semiautomatic handguns, also known as pistols, are the most common type of handgun manufactured in America, representing 73 percent of the 1,403,329 handguns manufactured in the United States in 2006 (the last year for which figures are available).
A lot of single stacks don't even hold 10...
Their new 'regulations' will never withstand constitutional scrutiny.
Neither did their old regulations, but it still took 32 years to right a major wrong.
I guess the big question is will the SCOTUS get involved until and unless a new case comes before them? Or as I suspect, will they simply hide in their hallowed halls and let the DC dolts continue to trample the rights of DC citizens?