{"id":687,"date":"2008-03-18T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/18\/dc-gun-case-a-brief-clarification-of-context\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T12:54:25","slug":"dc-gun-case-a-brief-clarification-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/18\/dc-gun-case-a-brief-clarification-of-context\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Gun Case: a Brief Clarification of Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that today&#8217;s Supreme Court hearing of the case concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/09\/dc-gun-ban-overturned\/\">DC&#8217;s gun regulations<\/a> is getting a lot of media play today.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the things I keep hearing is that DC only bans *handguns*, and that residents are free to keep shotguns and rifles for self defense. \u00c2\u00a0 And in that context, I suppose a handgun ban sounds a little more reasonable than it might otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 But this simply isn&#8217;t true, in a practical sense &#8211; securing the required permit for your shotgun\/rifle is ridiculously difficult (bordering on impossible), and even if you do get it, the law requires that the gun be rendered nonfunctional at all times.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no self-defense exception to that requirement.\u00c2\u00a0 So what we have, in DC, is an effective complete ban on the legal possession of <em>any<\/em> firearm for self defense.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish the reporting would be a little clearer on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that today&#8217;s Supreme Court hearing of the case concerning DC&#8217;s gun regulations is getting a lot of media play today.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the things I keep hearing is that DC only bans *handguns*, and that residents are free to keep shotguns and rifles for self defense. \u00c2\u00a0 And in that context, I suppose [&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-687","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\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}