Roughly a year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dist. of Columbia v. Heller ended Washington D.C.’s defacto gun ban in 2008, Tom Palmer, George Lyon, Ed Raymond & Amy McVey filed a lawsuit along with the Second Amendment Foundation in U.S. District Court claiming the District’s total ban on carrying firearms — open or […]
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Emily Finally Almost Gets Her Gun
I’ve been following the trails and travails of Washington Times Senior Opinion Page Editor Emily Miller over past several months as she’s navigated her way through Washington D.C.’s ridiculously complex guns laws. Ms. Miller decided to buy a gun after she was the victim of a home invasion while dog and house sitting for friends […]
Nine Years Later…
Every of September for the last nine years I’ve tried to make sense of what happened that morning… No matter how hard I try, I can’t, the events of September 11, 2001 were an act of such incomprehensible evil that they defy words. Every moment of that day is burned indelibly into our memories, I […]
D.C. Cop Brings Gun to Snowball Fight
What kind of a moron brings a gun a to a snowball fight? Apparently a veteran police detective in Washington D.C.: An off-duty Washington D.C. police detective went berserk and began waving his gun around when his Hummer was pelted with snowballs during this weekend’s storm. “Yes I did (pull my gun), because I got […]
Holder Overrules DOJ Ruling Saying D.C. Vote Bill Is Unconstitutional
The Washington Post reports in today’s edition that Attorney General Eric Holder overruled lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who ruled that the DC voting rights bill violates the Constitution: Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is […]