Hot off the e-press, from Tuesday morning’s Grace v. D.C.: Matthew Grace and the Pink Pistols (“the world’s largest GLBT self-defense organization,” with the motto “Pick On Someone Your Own Caliber”) have just won a preliminary injunction against D.C.’s provision that, to get a gun carry license, the applicant must show a “good reason to fear injury to his or her person or property” or “any other proper reason for carrying a pistol.” (An earlier decision, Wrenn v. D.C., reached the same result but was set aside on procedural grounds: The judge who decided that case was an out-of-district judge designated to hear particular cases, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that Wrenn wasn’t one of those cases.)
The author of the decision, Judge Richard Leon, may be familiar to some readers as the judge who has held that the NSA’s program for collecting phone data is probably unconstitutional. Here are some excerpts from Tuesday’s gun decision (some paragraph breaks added), though if you’re interested in the topic, you should read the whole opinion:
by Eugene Volokh
