(GunReports.com) – A federal judge in Washington, D.C., upheld the District of Columbia’s latest set of gun regulations, crafted to “cure the constitutional deficits” identified by a landmark Supreme Court decision overturning the district’s handgun ban.
The lead plaintiff challenging the restrictions is Dick Anthony Heller, the gun owner whose individual right to keep a gun in his home was restored by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller.
Heller and three others argued that the post-Heller regulations still violated their Second Amendment rights and D.C. code. Specifically, they took aim at three provisions: the registration procedures, the assault weapons ban and the prohibition on large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina said the challenged provisions are both “usual” and “reasonable” under D.C. Code, dismissing as irrelevant the argument that D.C.’s laws are more restrictive than those of some other jurisdictions.
Urbina also pointed out that nothing in Heller guarantees an individual the “unlimited” right to bear arms.
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