{"id":3370,"date":"2026-09-02T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:41:15","slug":"d-c-s-strict-gun-laws-are-being-put-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"D.C.&#8217;s Strict Gun Laws Are Being Put to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In June 2025, Lorenzo Redman was sentenced to 18 months in a D.C. prison after he was convicted of possessing a gun as a felon. His public defender filed an <span><u>appeal<\/u><\/span>.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3369\">Old Man-achusetts<\/a><\/p><p>But that appeal wasn\u2019t based on a procedural mistake or legal technicality. Rather, his attorney argued that in disarming felons, D.C. has been violating the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Redman\u2019s case \u2014 one of two pending before the D.C. Court of Appeals that challenges the District\u2019s felon-in-possession law \u2014 is an example of what has become a legal assault on the city\u2019s restrictive gun laws, including litigation around D.C.\u2019s ban on high-powered rifles and high-capacity magazines.<\/p><p>Similar legal challenges have been percolating in courts across the country, and at least one will be heard later this year by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Johnson House GOP 9\/1\/26\" class=\"wp-image-3355\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21996ddce58cd0a42cdd5f90acf8f287-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21996ddce58cd0a42cdd5f90acf8f287-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21996ddce58cd0a42cdd5f90acf8f287-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21996ddce58cd0a42cdd5f90acf8f287.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n<u>Dana Milbank:<\/u> The Only Thing Mike Johnson\u2019s House Is Good at Doing Is Wrongdoing\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Doug Burgum\" class=\"wp-image-3364\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d1f6ed92de8d1ac82f323dd38f7ec7e6-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d1f6ed92de8d1ac82f323dd38f7ec7e6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d1f6ed92de8d1ac82f323dd38f7ec7e6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d1f6ed92de8d1ac82f323dd38f7ec7e6.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Interior Department Staff Are Fearing a Major Agency Shakeup\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Burgum\" class=\"wp-image-3118\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d7b533497f5a2b88073ac38e5e25d585-768x506.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d7b533497f5a2b88073ac38e5e25d585-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d7b533497f5a2b88073ac38e5e25d585-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d7b533497f5a2b88073ac38e5e25d585.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Trump Is Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stadium Armory Metro AP - 20076659173141\" class=\"wp-image-3275\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b324c08c4d2510501747d9d1135755ba-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b324c08c4d2510501747d9d1135755ba-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b324c08c4d2510501747d9d1135755ba-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b324c08c4d2510501747d9d1135755ba.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      A New Commanders Stadium Is Coming. How Will Anybody Get There?\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Proponents say they\u2019re merely taking the path opened by the Supreme Court in 2008, when it overturned D.C.\u2019s absolute ban on handgun ownership, and later in 2022, when it significantly raised the bar for gun restrictions to comply with the Second Amendment.<\/p><p>\u201cThe court has made clear the Second Amendment won\u2019t be treated as a second-class right anymore,\u201d said Clark Neily, a vice president at the libertarian Cato Institute and attorney who worked on the 2008 case that tossed out D.C.\u2019s handgun ban.<\/p><p>But critics worry that the current litigation, if successful, will usher in an era of even more high-powered guns on the city\u2019s streets, leading to more deaths. (D.C. police estimate that roughly three-quarters of the city\u2019s homicides involve guns. As of September 1, 1,789 illegal guns have been <span><u>recovered<\/u><\/span> by police in 2026.)<\/p><p>\u201cThe weakening of our gun laws is only going to make public safety more difficult,\u201d said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the Trump administration has led the charge against D.C.\u2019s gun laws, while at the same time aggressively pushing to improve public safety in the city.<\/p><p>Last year, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said her office, which prosecutes most violent crime in the city, would no longer charge people for <span><u>carrying a rifle or a shotgun<\/u><\/span> or for <span><u>possessing magazines<\/u><\/span> that can hold more than 10 bullets in them, arguing the laws prohibiting them conflicted with the administration\u2019s pro-gun agenda and were likely unconstitutional.<\/p><p>D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has argued the ban helps prevent mass casualties when shootings happen. But earlier this year, a panel of judges on the D.C. Court of Appeals <span><u>disagreed<\/u><\/span> with him, declaring that the city\u2019s ban on high-capacity magazines is unconstitutional.<\/p><p>The Trump administration has also <span><u>sued D.C.<\/u><\/span> over its ban on AR-15 assault rifles, calling it an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment right of individuals to bear arms.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3367\">Taking Aim<\/a><\/p><p>Both that case and further appeals in litigation involving high-capacity magazines are now on hold, because the Supreme Court is scheduled to <span><u>hear a case<\/u><\/span> later this year involving similar bans on assault rifles across the country.<\/p><p>Much of this litigation has stemmed from the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 , which says only gun restrictions that have some equivalent in American history or tradition can survive constitutional scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw an absolute explosion of litigation in the wake of the Bruen decision, where the governing standard for the Second Amendment claims was rejected and the court announced this new history and tradition test,\u201d said Billy Clark, the associate litigation director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.<\/p><p>The Bruen decision has been cited in challenges to D.C.\u2019s ban on high-capacity magazines, and it\u2019s the central argument in Redman\u2019s appeal of his conviction for possessing a gun as a felon. \u201cThere is no historical precedent for permanently disarming a person based solely on a past conviction for a crime punishable by more than one year in prison,\u201d his public defenders argued in a <span><u>brief<\/u><\/span> to the Court of Appeals this month.<\/p><p>Since Pirro\u2019s office prosecuted Redman, it will be left to them to decide whether to defend D.C.\u2019s felon-in-possession law. \u201cU.S. Attorney Pirro will always fight to keep illegal firearms out of the hands of dangerous felons,\u201d a spokesperson said in an email.<\/p><p>The issue may also be destined for the Supreme Court, though, as multiple federal courts have split on whether felons should be banned from owning guns. Neily said he could see a ruling, whether from the Supreme Court or the D.C. Court of Appeals, that keeps some restrictions in place while tossing out a categorical ban.<\/p><p>\u201cIf you just say \u2018felon in possession\u2019 you think of a scary person who stuck up a liquor store, and it\u2019s not hard to think they should not have a gun,\u201d he said. \u201cBut there\u2019s <span><u>a guy in Pennsylvania<\/u><\/span> who was convicted of food stamp fraud in the mid-1990s, never went to jail, and is prohibited from owning a gun for life. That\u2019s bonkers.\u201d<\/p><p>In Redman\u2019s case, his initial felony charge in D.C. was for carrying a gun without a license. But he\u2019s also facing armed robbery and assault charges in Maryland.<\/p><p>For Mendelson, the arguments against D.C.\u2019s gun laws fail to capture the real issues facing cities struggling to keep residents safe.<\/p><p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe the founding fathers had a scintilla of thought of semi-automatic pistols or automatic weapons or felons in possession,\u201d he told NOTUS. \u201cThey were thinking of muskets. Really, George Washington would travel some of our streets and say this is OK?\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3365\">What to Do in the D.C. Area Over Labor Day Weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent cases have challenged prohibitions on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and felons owning guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>D.C.&#039;s Strict Gun Laws Are Being Put to the Test - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3370\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"D.C.&#039;s Strict Gun Laws Are Being Put to the Test - 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