The Supreme Court just ruled that the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns is unconstitutional. The law, adopted by District of Columbia's city council in 1976, had barred residents from owning handguns. Shotguns and rifles may be kept in homes, but only if they are registered and kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." The Supreme Court also struck down District of Columbia's requirement that firearms be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock," because "like the bar on carrying a pistol within the home, [it] amounts to a complete prohibition on the lawful use of handguns for self-defense." "I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of this freedom," said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. The NRA will file lawsuits across the nation challenging handgun restrictions based on today's Supreme Court ruling.
I do not own a gun but I am considering it. I don't see a problem with this ruling. This world can be less than civil and each person should have the right of self defense.
