anygunanywhere wrote:eric wrote:That court ruling was fine, but with revolver only is not right. And that was a good question on caliber limits.
Um, the DC mayor told the media "no automatic or semiautomatic" pistols.
That only leaves revolvers, single shots, or derringers.
Anygunanywhere
... and such an interpretation is in total ignorance of the reasoning behind the overturning of the ban in the first place. The court ruled that handguns are the most popular home defense tool (for self-defense in general, most surely, but I think for HOME defense the shotgun is more popular as many riot guns are cheaper than a handgun) and thus a ban on handguns is illegal. Of the handgun class, the autoloader is by far the most common, so by the same reasoning, even if it is a reasonable restriction to only allow one handgun type, it should be autoloaders only. Mayor Fenty is playing with fire; he is saying outright that he's going to adopt as restrictive a policy as the literal interpretation of the ruling will allow, in order to protect as much of the law that wasnot specifically in question as he can (for instance, any gun which is capable of shooting more than 12 rounds, even if it cannot in its current configuration, is a "machine gun" and is banned; this is the meat of the argument for revolvers only as any autoloader can take an extended mag). That just might get him thrown out of office by executive order or an act of Congress for contempt, not just of any court, but the highest in the land.