Back in July, Dick Heller sued Washington, DC. Again. This time it was over a stupidly arbitrary (or is that arbitrarily stupid?) limit on the amount of ammunition a lawful concealed carrier could carry. This wasn’t even a law or ordinance, but just a nonlegislative “rule” issued by the chief of police.

Given the “general historical tradition” test of Bruen, I figured that was going to get shot right down.

Upon seeing that, I immediately thought of the Militia Act of 1792, which actually specified a minimum amount of ammunition to be carried, not a maximum. And very much more than a single loading of the firearm (also required).

The cesspool city backed down.

Subsection 234.1 is repealed.

The TL;DR is, Umm… given Bruen, we can’t think of any sane way to rationalize our arbitrary capriciousness without getting laughed out of even the lefty DC District Court.

On the downside, if the Court leaves it at that, we miss a judicial precedent saying, Bad dog! No you can’t do that!

On the upside, the silly ammo limit is gone.

For now.

 

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