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A District Court Judge in a civil case against the District of Columbia has granted an injunction against its unreasonably restrictive carry permit law.

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Murders in the District of Columbia are not nearly as common as they were a generation ago, when the city’s crack cocaine gangs and former handgun ban held sway.

The post Scapegoat Alert! D.C. Murders Increase, Police Chief Blames . . . appeared first on AmmoLand.com.

A report released Wednesday by the Crime Prevention Research Center holds the number of permit holders in the country at an all-time high, topping 12.8 million.

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today won a preliminary injunction against the District of Columbia and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s enforcement of a requirement to provide a........

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The "good cause" portion of the new D.C. concealed carry law has been struck down in a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Scullin.

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On April 2, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted D.C.’s motion to voluntarily dismiss an appeal of the ruling that held the District’s ban on carrying a.....

The post DC Shifts from Defending Total Ban on Carrying Firearms, to Defense of Near-Total Ban appeared first on AmmoLand.com.

Advocates both for and against a rebooted nationwide push, announced Wednesday to mandate background checks for virtually all gun transfers to include private sales, are promising a fight.

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A bill was introduced in the House on Wednesday which aims to close background check loopholes in the purchase of firearms in the country, officials said Wednesday.

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John Hinckley Jr. — the man whose failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 resulted in the serious injury of the president and subsequent death of White House press secretary James Brady some 33 years later — will not be brought up on murder charges, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

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Since making news recently for passing the strictest concealed carry handgun law in the country, a Washington D.C. city council member is drawing flak after saying District police shouldn’t have guns either.

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Adam Kokesh may have cancelled the Independence Day armed march to Washington, D.C., but that didn’t stop him from showing up to Washington’s Freedom Plaza with a shotgun anyway. He loaded it while being filmed, apparently committing at least four felonies in the process.

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