Washington D.C. Blocked From Enforcing Its Concealed Carry Law

By Tom Knighton

The District of Columbia is one of the least gun-friendly communities in the nation. There’s a reason it was a test case before the Supreme Court, which overturned the city’s gun laws as being antithetical to the Second Amendment.

Knowing they couldn’t ban guns outright, the district has tried doing everything short of a bad to restrict the people’s right to keep and bear arms within their jurisdiction. However, they’ve now received a nasty pimp slap for their efforts.

D.C. officials will not be able to enforce the city’s strict limits on carrying concealed firearms on the streets of the nation’s capital under a court order issued Thursday.

The brief statement from a federal appeals court in Washington is the latest setback for the District’s efforts to restrict the carrying of guns in public places to people who demonstrate a “good reason” to do so.

The District’s top lawyer had asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a challenge to the gun-control law after a panel of three judges ruled against the city in July. But on Thursday, the appeals court declined, without explanation, to revisit the case.

The city’s permitting system had remained in effect …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms