Supreme 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.

4 Responses to “Scalia on DC gun ban: Bullet wounds will stop your buffoonery”
  1. 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

  2. [...] 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 [...]

  3. Those seem like pretty reasonable laws to me, Mike, though I don’t know why we would trust Ann Coulter.

  4. I think you’re right about gun bans not really stopping anyone if they want firearms. And firing ranges are fun!

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