Or at least the process appears to be starting:
Congress plans to take up a bill this week that would repeal the District's gun-registration requirements and make it easier for residents to legally buy semiautomatic weapons, raising alarm among city officials that the measure would effectively end local gun control.
Chiefs of the D.C. police, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are expected to testify against the bill during a House hearing today.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) plans to introduce a substitute bill that would simply mandate that D.C.'s gun laws conform to a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down the city's 32-year-old ban on handguns. <Isn't it embarrassing that she wants Congress to tell these cretins that they have to obey the Supreme Court?--TPaine7>
But the tougher legislation is likely to prevail in the House, according to congressional sources and supporters and opponents of the bill. It has won the backing of 48 Democrats, many facing reelection in strongly pro-gun areas, and is expected to pick up broad support among Republicans.The legislation has four main goals. It would repeal the D.C. ban on semiautomatic pistols and rifles; eliminate the city's gun-registration requirements; allow District residents to purchase guns in Virginia and Maryland; and abolish the regulation that guns kept at home be unloaded and either disassembled or fitted with trigger locks.Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802593.htmlThis is great news. Apparently we won't have to wait decades for the case to wend its way through the courts again. The District must recognize that any local control it enjoys is at the pleasure of Congress and subject to the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Defying the Constitution will result in disciplinary action.
Mayor Daly, are you paying attention?
LOL!