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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, “it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”
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I'm wondering though how this practically plays out? I mean, there are no FFL gun stores in D.C., so not only is there nowhere to buy a new gun, but you can't go to Maryland or Virginia either, since there is no FFL dealer to send it to in order to get it into D.C.? Prior to the ban the ruling stuck down, D.C. also had some of the most stringent restrictions of gun store licensing requirements in the nation, so it may be financially pretty tough to successfully run a gun shop in D.C. And didn't they require a pre-purchase permit or something, like N. Carolina's pistol permits (or maybe I'm confusing that with something else).
I'm just wondering, as I watch these folks on the t.v. news saying how happy they are with the ruling now that they can go out and buy their gun(s) for home defense, but how? Even an ATF agent was quoted in Wall St. Journal as saying he didn't see how they could, not until at least one FFL licensed dealer opens shop within D.C.
Or maybe that will be the first way to do it? Someone gets an FFL but without a physical full service store location and just acts as an agent for purchases made out of D.C.? Or does D.C. have some way to prohibit that (eg. city ordnance precludes operating such a business out of a non-commercial physical store location, or some such local restrictions).
Regardless of the ruling, I'm just pondering how much this actually changes things for people in D.C., from a practical POV (I find D.C. a confusing entity, since it is a city without a state and all).