U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. placed a hold on a Washington, D.C., requirement that he believed took away residents’ Second Amendment rights.
According to the Daily Caller, Scullin granted a preliminary injunction in his decision on a lawsuit filed by three gun owners fighting the D.C. gun law. The gun regulation requires gun owners to state “a good reason” to obtain a concealed carry permit in Washington, D.C.
“For all intents and purposes, this requirement makes it impossible for the overwhelming majority of law-abiding citizens to obtain licenses to carry handguns in public for self-defense, thereby depriving them of their Second Amendment right to bear arms,” Judge Scullin wrote in his opinion Monday.
This ruling is the third major defeat for gun-control advocates in Washington, D.C., since 2008.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that D.C.’s ban on handguns was unconstitutional.
Gun-control advocates also endured a major setback in 2014, when Scullin ruled against D.C.’s long-time ban on handguns in public.
