DOJ Sues DC for the Unconstitutional Ban of Semi-automatics

[jdege]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-district-columbia-unconstitutional-ban-semi-automatic-firearms
Justice Department Sues the District of Columbia for the Unconstitutional Ban of Semi-Automatic Firearms

Today, the Justice Department sued the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that the District government and MPD unconstitutionally ban the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment. The District’s gun laws require anyone seeking to own a gun to register it with D.C. Metro Police. However, the D.C. Code provides a broad registration ban on numerous firearms — an unconstitutional incursion into the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes. MPD’s current pattern and practice of refusing to register protected firearms is forcing residents to sue to protect their rights and to risk facing wrongful arrest for lawfully possessing protected firearms.

[Lumpy]

What I'd really like to see isn't just DC's ban on semi-automatic rifles struck down but the very mechanism of simultaneously requiring permits and refusing to issue them. That would strike at the heart of the Hughes Amendment.