July 17, 2008 12:40PM # Supreme Court Rules, But Behold the Rigmarole By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) --- SHARE Dick Heller won in the Supreme Court, but the D.C. government is creating a [rigmarole of a process](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700621.html?sid=ST2008071700700&pos=list) for residents to exercise their constitutional right. Looks like everyone one is going to need a lawyer to guide them through the morass—at least in the near term. *Washington Post* columnist Marc Fisher says that DC officials held a press conference where they seemed to be amused by the cumbersome registration process they have created: “There are circumstances where it could take months,” Police Chief [Cathy Lanier](http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Cathy+Lanier?tid=informline) conceded, and you could almost hear the elected officials around her emitting “heh-hehs” of mischievous delight. Read the [whole thing](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602491.html). ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).