District of Columbia's gun control laws were the subject of a 2008 supreme court decision that ruled for an individual right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes.
What is the District of Columbia v. Heller case?
In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 26, 2008, by a vote of 5 to 4, that the Second Amendment guarantees a person's right to own firearms without having to participate in a state militia and to use firearms for conventionally legal purposes, such as self-defense inside the home. The Second Amendment's interpretation was examined in this case for the first time since the United
The case known as District of Columbia v. Heller was first brought in 2003 in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. In Parker v. District of Columbia, six residents of the federal District of Columbia asked the court to block the implementation of three provisions of the district's Firearms Control Regulation Act (1975), which generally forbade the registration of handguns, forbade the carrying of unlicensed handguns or any other "deadly or dangerous" weapon that could be concealed, and demanded that legally stored firearms be disassembled or locked to prevent firing.
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