A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Saturday
overturned the city’s total ban on residents being allowing to carry firearms
outside their home in a landmark decision for gun-rights activists. Judge Frederick Scullin Jr. wrote in his
ruling in Palmer v. District of Columbia that the right to bear arms extends
outside the home, therefore gun-control laws in the nation’s capital are
“unconstitutional.” Click here to
read the decision.
“We won,” Alan Gura, the lead attorney for the Second
Amendment Foundation, told Fox News in a phone interview. “I’m very pleased
with the decision that the city can’t forbid the exercise of a fundamental
constitutional right." Gura said he expects the District to appeal this
decision but added, “We’ll be happy to keep the fight going.” The decision
leaves no gray area in gun-carrying rights……To Read More….
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