July 20, 2011 2:45PM 

# Guns in D.C. 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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Three years after the Supreme Court’s landmark *Heller* ruling, which declared Washington, D.C.‘s gun control laws unconstitutional, city officials keep fighting. Under pressure from another lawsuit concerning a [de facto ban](http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2363345), the city says that guns may now be purchased at the [police station](http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2463156). No details yet on whether residents will have to change into orange jump suits and wait in the holding cells while the police process the paperwork.

More [here](https://www.cato.org/store/books/gun-control-trial-inside-supreme-court-battle-over-second-amendment-hardback).

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[Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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