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Jun 26 2008

Scalia on DC gun ban: Bullet wounds will stop your buffoonery

Posted by: Will Sommer in News, Vox Populi, tags: , ,

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.

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

  2. Vox Populi » DC gun purchases will remain difficult says: 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 [...]

  3. Will Sommer says: 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.

  4. guns & holsters says: May 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    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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