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Originally Posted by John1960
but not before adding language to strip the city of its gun laws.
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Ummm, not quite.
From the linked article:
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The gun amendment, backed by a 62-36 vote, eliminates most of D.C.’s firearm laws which were installed last year after the Supreme Court struck down the city’s handgun ban.
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DC has had lots of anti-gun-rights laws for many years. The Supremes struck down one of them last year, in the Heller case. So the DC City Council hastily put together some more, that kept most of the law in place but altered the part the USSC didn't like.
Now it seems the Senate has approved a bill that strikes down those hasty, new laws. But from what I can see, it doesn't affect the many other laws that DC has had for years.
Others have predicted, that one of the unintended consequences of the DC City Council letting this case go to the Supremes, was that the Supremes might point out that longstanding Federal law says the US Congress is the ONLY lawmaking body governing the city of Washington DC, and that the DC City Council is, in fact, an illegal body with no legitimate powers at all.
Sounds like that conclusion is now one step closer to reality.
Of course, the House has yet to pass this bill. And it has its share of anti-gun-rights politicians:
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Voting rights supporters hope to drop the amendment when the House and Senate conference over differences between their respective versions of the legislation. The House is set to approve its version next week.
“We want to assure that when the bill gets signed into law it does not have the gun amendment,” said Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote. “That’s our challenge. That’s our fight.”
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