{"id":951,"date":"2007-03-09T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/dc-gun-ban-overturned\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:45:44","slug":"dc-gun-ban-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/dc-gun-ban-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Gun Ban Overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/908s.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"right\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\" \/>This just in from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/\">NRA-ILA<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/Releases.aspx?ID=9044\">D.C. Circuit Court Hands Down Significant Victory for Individual Second Amendment Rights!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 09, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax, VA- The District of Columbia Circuit Court today affirmed that the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects an inherent, individual right to bear arms. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling should have a positive impact on the current D.C. gun ban, the National Rifle Association is fighting to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>The majority opinion of the court states, &#8220;[T]he phrase &#8216;the right of the people,&#8217; when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual.&#8221; The majority opinion sums up its holding on this point as follows:  The D.C. Circuit Court went further in upholding individual freedoms, <strong>rejecting the claim that the Second Amendment does not apply to the District because it is not a State<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. City Council is expected to appeal the ruling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be interesting to see how this one works it&#8217;s way up through the appeal process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from NRA-ILA D.C. Circuit Court Hands Down Significant Victory for Individual Second Amendment Rights! Friday, March 09, 2007 Fairfax, VA- The District of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}