Calguns Foundation on Offense, Files Suit in D.C.

Remember when D.C., after Heller, adopted huge chunks of California’s firearm laws — including the Roster of “safe” handguns — on the assumption that they were Constitutionally sound? Well, in conjunction with Alan Gura and the Second Amendment Foundation, this complaint was just filed in D.C. alleging that the California “Safe” Handgun Roster, as adopted by D.C., is unconstitutional:

There are three guns and issues at issue in this case.

1. An XD-45 Tactical Bi-Tone which couldn’t be rostered because it’s a different color than its rostered functional identical equivalents.

2. A Para P13 that was once rostered but fell off when Para Ordnance didn’t pay the annual fee.

3. A Buntline style High Standard 9 shot .22 revolver – the same gun that the Supreme Court ordered DC to register in DC v. Heller.

Here is the press release that went over the wire minutes ago. …

–Gene Hoffman, Chair, the Calguns Foundation.

Here’s the money quote from the SAF’s press release:

Her husband sought to own the same type of handgun that the Supreme Court had ordered District officials to
allow Dick Heller to possess. However, that particular model is no longer manufactured, and its maker is no
longer available to process the handgun’s certification through the bureaucracy.

Gene Hoffman continues…

Special thanks to the following Calgunners.

1. Brett Thomas/the_quark: Realizing that Heller’s gun wasn’t registerable in DC.

2. Ivan Pena/Ivananimal: Making a personal sacrifice to this case.

3. Two CGN’ers who wish to remain nameless: They want to remain “lowpro” but they were indispensable helping pull these guns together.

These things take a lot of work and a lot of money. The work on the CGF side is all volunteer. With that I would ask each and every one of you to consider a donation to the Calguns Foundation to help us offset expenses so far and moving forward. We plan to bring this to a victory and repatriate the decision to California.

And thus we begin the CGF offense.

–Gene Hoffman, Chair, the Calguns Foundation.

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