Setting up potential appeal, D.C. asks federal judge to reinstate handgun ban

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Attorneys for the District formally asked U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin on Monday to reconsider his July opinion striking down as unconstitutional the city’s ban on carrying handguns in public.

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