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Poor Man: DC Mayor Living in State of Denial

Mon, Jul 7, 2008 | 7:32 pm

by Stephan Tawney (Amerpundit)

The poor guy is under the impression that he can still totally outlaw the handguns he wants, allowing only six-shooter revolvers in his city. Apparently I missed the section of Scalia’s opinion that mentioned only handguns.

The court ruled that a blanket ban on handguns is unconstitutional, but D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other Washington officials want to keep in place a prohibition on semiautomatic handguns — those in which a bullet clip is inserted into the gun’s grip.

Such a ban would continue to outlaw 9-mm and other popular pistols that are legal in most other places around the United States. And it would make the classic six-shooter the only legal handgun in the District.

As noted by See-Dubya, Scalia doesn’t mention any specific type of handgun. Fenty seems intent on keeping crime up in his city, regardless of what the high court rules.

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