In 1976, the District of Columbia ("D.C." or the "District") City Council enacted three of the strictest gun control ordinances in the United States . The ordinances entirely ban the possession of handguns within the District and, while allowing...
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Since Congress passed the National Firearms Act of 1934, federal law has regulated machine guns. Cargill v. Garland at 2. The Act defines “machinegun” as “any weapon which shoots . . . automatically more than one shot . . . by a single function of the...
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The incorporation doctrine is a constitutional doctrine through which parts of the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution (known as the Bill of Rights) are made applicable to the states through the Due Process clause...
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The Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” U.S. Const. Amend. II. In District of Columbia v. Heller...
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New York law criminalizes the possession of handguns; however, a New York citizen may apply for a license to own, and in some circumstances even publicly carry, a handgun. NY State Rifle and Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Beach at 145. Government officials,...
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New York State prohibits the unlicensed possession of handguns. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York at 52. In New York City (the “City”), licensing officers may issue a handgun license to a City resident pursuant to...
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Between December 2020 and January 2021, Respondent Zackey Rahimi was involved in five shootings. United States v. Rahimi at 2. On December 1, Rahimi sold drugs to a buyer and, when the buyer talked badly about him, fired multiple shots into the buyer’s...