D.C. Has ‘Permitless’ Firearms Carry for an Unknown Time

By Dean Weingarten

Second Amendment
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Dean Weingarten
Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Alan Gura reports that the District Court, after nearly five years of stonewalling, has found for the Constitutional right to bear arms outside of the home.

It has struck down the prohibitions on carry outside of the home in the District of Columbia, for both residents and non-residents.

It took five years and two petitions for a writ of mandamus to obtain this decision.  The wording below is from the decision.   From alangura.com:

In light of Heller, McDonald, and their progeny, there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny.

Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional.

Accordingly, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and enjoins Defendants from enforcing the home limitations of D.C. Code § 7-2502.02(a)(4) and enforcing D.C. Code § 22-4504(a) unless and until such time as the District of Columbia adopts a licensing mechanism consistent with constitutional standards enabling people to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.4 Furthermore, this injunction prohibits the District from completely banning the carrying of handguns in public for self-defense by otherwise qualified non-residents based solely on the fact that they are not residents of the District.

No doubt the D.C. government  will work quickly to place some restrictions on carry outside of the home.   But today is Saturday, the 26th of July 2014.  I refuse to believe that they will be able to enact an ordinance or obtain a stay from the appeals court before Monday.   For some period of time, it will be legal to carry a firearm outside of your home in D.C. without a permit to carry.

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About Dean Weingarten;

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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taxidave

You still need a reg. cert to possess a handgun. The ruling basically removes the section on prohibiting handguns: “(4) Pistol not validly registered to the current registrant in the District prior to September 24, 1976, except that the prohibition on registering a pistol shall not apply to: (A) Any organization that employs at least one commissioned special police officer or other employee licensed to carry a firearm and that arms the employee with a firearm during the employee’s duty hours; (B) A police officer who has retired from the Metropolitan Police Department; (C) Any person who seeks to register… Read more »

Dog Face

Careful. The order says “Defendants, their officers, agents, servants, employees and all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Memorandum-Decision and Order, are permanently enjoined…” Permit-less carry doesn’t begin until DC officially receives the order, which I bet won’t happen over the weekend.

mick

Doesn’t mean they stll won’t arrest and toss you in jail and charge you with some other garbage.

Vom Brunhaus

New Jersey is the State ALL efforts should be directed at, continuously Filing Suit.

TEX

What about NJ ??? Dude that is beyond funny ! Jersey is gone,…Gone !!

Eric

A Start in the right direction.

pepe

Great! But what about New Jersey?