Judge Upholds DC Gun Registration Requirements

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has upheld registration requirements that are part of the gun laws in the nation's capital, including making people re-register every three years, take a safety class and photographing and fingerprinting gun owners.

Judge James Boasberg ruled Thursday that the city's requirements are constitutionally permissible. The city put the requirements in place after a landmark 2008 Supreme Court decision that ended a 32-year-old handgun ban in the nation's capital.

A group of residents sued over the new restrictions, and a federal judge in 2010 said they were permissible.

The next year, an appeals court said the city's assault weapons ban was constitutional. But it told the city it had to explain further why the registration requirements were necessary.

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[blueridge3210]

1. Not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.

Those most likely to engage in criminal misuse of firearms are least likely to comply with registration requirements anyway. Those individuals who commit mass shootings seem to suicide or surrender when confronted by LEO's so they are not difficult to identify. As long as the result of the law is not a functional equivalent of denying firearm ownership it will likely survive any further constitutional challenge; is just does not seem likely to have much impact on criminal misuse of firearms.

[clffrdjk]

2. Heck they are not even required to comply with registration.

[krucam]

3. From the Ruling

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Memorandum-Opinion-Heller-DC.pdf

Given that the Supreme Court urges judicial deference to legislative predictions as well as to legislative judgments regarding conflicting evidence,it is plain that Plaintiffs are mistaken about the burden of proof in this case. The District need not prove that the gun-registration laws will actually further its asserted interests in order to prevail. [p. 17]

Wow, they can just make Sh!t up and it passes Judicial Scrutiny.

She turned me into a Newt....burn her!