DC Resists Compliance with Heller Ruling

Instapundit:

D.C.'S HELLER COMPLIANCE seems to focus on imposing bureaucratic barriers in place of legal ones. My favorites: "If you want to keep a handgun in your home, the MPD will have to perform ballistic testing on it before it can be legally registered. . . . Firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and disassembled, and secured with either a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. The new law will allow an exception for a firearm while it is being used against an intruder in the home." So you can assemble it and load it after the burglar breaks in, without breaking the law. How helpful! This seems flatly inconsistent with the Court's opinion in Heller.

Note that while we conservatives are expected to conform with the diktats of the court without question, liberals feel no such compulsion.

I have to hand it to them, though: This is exactly the sort of ballsy open defiance of the courts many of us have urged Bush and state governments to display.

posted by Ace at 12:37 PM

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