Divided D.C. Circuit Refuses to Rehear Bump Stock Ban Challenge [More]
And that is how judicial tyranny makes peaceful revolution impossible.
[Via Jess]
Tag: Washington DC
Rightwing Extremists At It Again
8 people, including 12-year-old girl, shot in 2 “likely connected” shootings in Washington, D.C. [More]
So can we expect an angry David Hogg to go down there and call the perpetrators the same names he calls NRA members?
Not an NRA Member or Republican in Sight
‘Targeted’ shooting leaves funeral-goer dead, 3 injured after service for murder victim: cops [More]
It’s what the reports aren’t telling us that’s revealing.
Leopards Don’t Change Spots?
Man Who Stabbed Rand Paul Senate Aide in Broad Daylight Had Just Been Released from Prison [More]
I don’t suppose “hate crime” charges are in order…?
What’s more important? Public safety or ending “overrepresentation”?
[Via Michael G]
State of Denial
Locker Room Talk
GOP rep unveils bill to install weapons lockers so House employees can take guns to work in ‘crime-ridden DC’ [More]
So once more government workers will have an advantage not required by law for ordinary citizen workplaces?
No prognosis for passing yet. My guess is the percentage will be in the single digits.
Any podcast pundits calling this “Huge” yet?
[Via bondmen]
Their Right to Victimize
Privileges and Immunities
A Mugged Liberal
Democrat rep calls out DC’s soft-on-crime policies after attack by repeat offender: ‘I was assault number 13’ [More]
Wake me when she apologizes and recants.
[Via bondmen]
Angie’s Dissed
Rep. Angie Craig attacked in elevator of her DC apartment building, office says [More]
Gee, that’s too f****n’ bad.
We’re the Only Ones ‘Paper or Plastic?’ Enough
Standing Room Only
Judge Claims “Lack of Standing” in Second Amendment Public Transportation Case … In effect, Judge Moss is stating a plaintiff will need to be arrested for violating the District of Columbia’s ban on carrying concealed weapons in order to challenge the ban. [More]
Who thinks the Obama nominee rides the Metro into work?
[Via Dan Gifford]
Hoist with His Own Petard
A criminal justice reform advocate who helped pass sweeping changes to the criminal code including reducing sentences for those convicted of crimes in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed in the city last Tuesday, just hours before the city council passed the bill. [More]
Be careful what you ask for. And of what you would impose on others.
Defining Deviancy Down
Need Not Apply
D.C. won’t give 3 Black men concealed-carry licenses. They’re suing. [More]
The mayor and police chief must be real rac… uh, no, they can’t be because they don’t have pow… wait a minute, yes they do…
[Via Dan Gifford]
We’re the Only Ones Disarming Enough
A Method to His Madness
DC’s deputy mayor for public safety resigns after being charged with assault [More]
I kind of see why he wants criminals to help define DC citizen disarmament policy.
[Via Michael G]
Case-Sensitive
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says in a new court filing that Metro is too sensitive a place to allow regular commuters to carry handguns, because trains and buses carry large numbers of federal workers and also D.C. school children on a daily basis. [More]
What’s “a historical understanding” say about this?
[Via Jess]
Heller 2.0
Thank Your Republican Leadership!
A manufacturer of untraceable “ghost guns” has been ordered to pay D.C. $4 million as part of a legal settlement that will also prohibit it from selling any guns to city residents in the future. [More]
Left unsaid is that Ebony Scott is a leftist tool confirmed with the help of Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Roy Blunt, Shelley Capito, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, and Thom Tillis.
And yes, we could come up with damning links on all of them.
[Via Jess]
Citizen Disarmament They Can Agree With
They say that the current restrictions for concealed weapons (schools, bars, stadiums, government buildings) are justifiable and constitutional, but the ban on carrying while on public transportation is not. [More]
Well, there goes any sympathy I might have had for them…
What’s with the impulse to give away the rest of the store as long as they get the item they came in for?
[Via Andy M]
