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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...1579ac-84ba-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...1579ac-84ba-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html
D.C. to lift stun-gun ban after constitutional challenge by gun rights advocates
By Spencer S. Hsu
September 27 at 6:13 PM
The District government will not seek to enforce the city’s stun-gun ban against three residents who challenged the law, and court records show city lawmakers are preparing legislation to lift the long-standing prohibition.
In a two-page order filed late Monday, the District agreed not to enforce a blanket city prohibition against importing, purchasing, possessing or using Taser-style weapons “for lawful self-defense in their residences.” The suspension affects only three plaintiffs — a conservative blogger, a nurse and an armed-robbery victim — and will halt litigation for 90 days.
But in court papers, city officials indicated the D.C. Council is moving to remove the ban in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that apparently considers electronic weapons to be protected under the Second Amendment.
The group also said the city ought to be able to regulate weapons subject to “intermediate scrutiny” by courts, or showing that regulations further public safety, rather than be subject to “strict scrutiny,” the highest standard, which requires government to show that a rule meets a “compelling” interest in the narrowest way possible. Appeals courts have been embracing the former in gun cases.
