CHANNILLO
In February 2003, the six residents of Washington,
D.C. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the constitutionality of provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, a local law. This law restricted residents from owning handguns, excluding those grandfathered in by registration prior to 1975 and guns possessed by active and retired law enforcement officers. The law also required that all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock.” The plaintiffs filed a motion for an injunction. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina dismissed the lawsuit finding that gun control was constitutional.
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Chapter Twenty-Five: Outgunned How the Second Amendment was Turned Upside Down (2)
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In the District Court
In February 2003, the six residents of Washington,
D.C. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the constitutionality of provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, a local law. This law restricted residents from owning handguns, excluding those grandfathered in by registration prior to 1975 and guns possessed by active and retired law enforcement officers. The law also required that all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock.” The plaintiffs filed a motion for an injunction. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina dismissed the lawsuit finding that gun control was constitutional.
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