{"id":1538586,"date":"2022-07-04T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538586"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:19:35","slug":"d-c-residents-sue-city-to-lift-concealed-carry-ban-on-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-residents-sue-city-to-lift-concealed-carry-ban-on-public-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Residents Sue City To Lift Concealed Carry Ban On Public Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-residents-sue-city-to-lift-concealed-carry-ban-on-public-transit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Several Washington, D.C., and Virginia residents are suing the nation\u2019s capital for prohibiting carrying concealed firearms on its public transportation busses and metro lines.<\/p>\n<p>Three residents of D.C. and one Virginian filed a joint lawsuit last week demanding the city\u2019s ban on concealed weapons on public transit be scrapped, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/22\/06\/30\/supreme-court-gun-ruling-could-threaten-strict-dc-gun-laws\/\">DCist<\/a>. The group filed the suit following the Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 decision in \u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-843_7j80.pdf\">New York State Rifle &#038; Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen<\/a><\/em>, which found a New York law limiting concealed carry licenses to those who could show \u201cgood moral character\u201d and \u201cproper cause\u201d unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the decisions in <em>Bruen<\/em> and <em>Heller<\/em>, The District of Columbia may not ban the keeping and bearing of arms for self-defense that are not unusually dangerous, deny individuals the right to carry arms in non-sensitive places, deny individuals of the right to keep and carry arms in an arbitrary and capricious manner, or impose regulations on the right to keep and carry arms that are inconsistent with the Second Amendment and the historical tradition of firearms regulation in the United States,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/580550922\/Complaint-as-Filed-Metro\">lawsuit<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulation at issue in this case, runs afoul of the Second Amendment because it lacks any historical justification, is arbitrary and capricious, and unnecessarily infringes on the core right of self-protection,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. currently prohibits the open carrying of handguns and has numerous restrictions on where someone who is concealed carrying may go. The ban on concealed carry covers all public transportation as well as government buildings, the National Mall, hospitals, schools, universities, any business where alcohol is consumed, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, however, only seeks to remove the ban on concealed carry weapons on public transportation. It also lays out distinct differences between public transportation systems and the other restricted areas.<\/p>\n<p>The court filing comes as crime on the D.C. metro has hit historically high levels in recent years. Metro police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2022\/04\/28\/metro-police-crime-buses-train\/\">announced<\/a> in April that law enforcement would be increasing the number of officers patrolling metro lines. Crime still remains high compared to pre-pandemic rates, even after rates of serious crime on trains fell more than 30% from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Washington, D.C., and Virginia residents are suing the nation\u2019s capital for prohibiting carrying concealed firearms on its public transportation busses and metro lines. Three residents of D.C. and one Virginian filed a joint lawsuit last week demanding the city\u2019s ban on concealed weapons on public transit be scrapped, according to the DCist. 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