{"id":262,"date":"2007-03-09T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/09\/dc-gun-ban-overturned\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:36:13","slug":"dc-gun-ban-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/09\/dc-gun-ban-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Gun Ban Overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/09wire-gun.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">This<\/a> should make for some interesting posturing in the near future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia&#8217;s long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city&#8217;s argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>The court also ruled the D.C. requirement that registered firearms be kept unloaded, disassembled and under trigger lock was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights, but the Supreme Court has never settled the issue.<\/p>\n<p>If the dispute makes it to the high court, it would be the first case in nearly 70 years to address the Second Amendment&#8217;s scope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There will be a whole lot of noise before anything useful or important gets said, I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should make for some interesting posturing in the near future: A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia&#8217;s long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city&#8217;s argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias. [ . . . ] The court also ruled the D.C. requirement that registered firearms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}