D.C. ATTORNEY GENERAL WAVES WHITE FLAG ON CONCEALED CARRY BAN
From the 2nd Amendment Foundation
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation will continue fighting the District of Columbia’s new concealed carry law, while notching a small victory with today’s decision by the city to drop its appeal of SAF’s victory in the Palmer case that forced the city to adopt a carry permitting structure.
“While we’re happy to see the city drop their appeal of our earlier victory,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, “we were eager to face them in court, as there was no possible way they could have successfully argued in favor of continuing an outright ban on carry in the District.
“This is one more critical Second Amendment Foundation victory for gun rights,” he added. “But we will continue to keep suing the city of Washington, D.C. over their new carry law that is still an unconstitutional infringement on our Second Amendment rights.”
Under the District’s newly-adopted law, permit applicants must still provide a good reason for carrying a protective firearm outside the home, and the police chief gets to decide whether that reason is valid. So far, only a handful of applicants have been approved, and Gottlieb said that shows a fundamental flaw in such a discretionary permitting scheme.
“No public official should enjoy that kind of sway over a citizen’s right to bear arms,” Gottlieb stated. “It creates a manifestly unfair system that is wide open to abuse and favoritism, as we’ve seen in New York, California and elsewhere that insiders and elitists can get permits, but average citizens are routinely given second-class consideration, or no consideration at all.”
Strike this as another great victory for the 2nd Amendment foundation. These people are doing incredible work on behalf of gun owners all across America.
However, as noted in the article, the battle is not over for D.C. Yes, it is true that they were able to force D.C. to change their laws to allow Concealed Carry, but the system D.C. put in place to allow for people to carry concealed is still considered, by many, to be an infringement on 2nd Amendment rights.
The District Attorney initially went on the offensive and tried to fight the new freedom that was given to residents of D.C., as the local government in D.C. still wants complete and total control over guns in their city.
However, as the case for an appeal began to unravel, it became clear that the ruling had little chance of being overturned.
The 2nd Amendment foundation was not going to surrender in the face of this attack. Now, the powers in D.C. have waived the white flag on the appeal and have hone into defense mode as they try to build a case to justify their draconian concealed carry permit requirements.
They know the requirements they imposed are completely unreasonable, and they did so as a way to intimidate and discourage people from trying to acquire a permit. They know that this system will not hold up under scrutiny in court as it stands.
The 2nd Amendment foundation is primed for another victory in D.C. It may take some time to resolve all of these issues, but before all is done I believe we will see reasonable carry laws in our nations capital.
