Jun
26
2008
Scalia on DC gun ban: Bullet wounds will stop your buffoonery
Posted by: Will Sommer in Crime, District NewsSupreme Court strikes down Washington’s handgun ban. Sad stuff for DC, but how much gun crime did the gun ban deter, considering that Maryland and Virginia gun stores are only a Metro train away? It was probably more useful for getting charges against people wanted for other stuff, Wire-style.
On the bright side, I guess this means we can all go to more firing ranges.




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June 27th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
We’ve got three weeks to come up with Supreme-Court-proof DC gun laws. — see
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/dc-gun-license
June 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
[…] you still can’t buy a gat in the District, no matter what the Supreme Court says about the gun ban. The Wall Street Journal says DC will try to use zoning and a helpful (for once) dose of NIMBYs to […]
June 27th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Those seem like pretty reasonable laws to me, Mike, though I don’t know why we would trust Ann Coulter.