DOJ Sues District of Columbia Over Gun Ban in Move to Fully the Enforce the Heller, McDonald and Bruen Rulings

Today, the Justice Department sued the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that the District government and MPD unconstitutionally ban the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment. The District’s gun laws require anyone seeking to own a gun to register it with D.C. Metro Police. However, the D.C. Code provides a broad registration ban on numerous firearms — an unconstitutional incursion into the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes. MPD’s current pattern and practice of refusing to register protected firearms is forcing residents to sue to protect their rights and to risk facing wrongful arrest for lawfully possessing protected firearms.

“Today’s action from the Department of Justice’s new Second Amendment Section underscores our ironclad commitment to protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Washington, DC’s ban on some of America’s most popular firearms is an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment — living in our nation’s capital should not preclude law-abiding citizens from exercising their fundamental constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

“This Civil Rights Division will defend American citizens from unconstitutional restrictions of commonly used firearms, in violation of their Second Amendment rights,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “The newly established Second Amendment Section filed this lawsuit to ensure that the very rights D.C. resident Mr. Heller secured 17 years ago are enforced today — and that all law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes may do so.”

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8 thoughts on “DOJ Sues District of Columbia Over Gun Ban in Move to Fully the Enforce the Heller, McDonald and Bruen Rulings”

  1. It’s nice they are doing this but D.C. is a sort of ‘low hanging fruit’ thing for this because its not a state but rather a federal district and can’t claim states rights. So, do the anti-gun blue states to.

    1. Trump DOJ Goes in for the Kill on DC’s Absurd Gun Laws.

      ht* tps://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/22/finally-the-trump-doj-suing-dc-over-its-obnoxious-gun-laws-n2668323

  2. Left wing violence – yep, another trans person: Serial Criminal Who Blinded Woman Is ‘Transgender’.

    ht* tps://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/22/serial-criminal-who-blinded-woman-is-transgender-n4947392

  3. Evidently the killer in the Brown University incident had been ‘surveilling’ the target zone for a while. The majority of mass/school-shooters (about 99%) perform some type of surveillance on their target areas before they attack.

    Brown University police chief put on leave ‘effective immediately’ as Trump admin investigates deadly shooting



    Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management Rodney Chatman being placed on leave ‘effective immediately’ also comes after a custodian said that he had warned security about the suspect weeks before the attack took place.

    …and a custodian at the college said he saw the gunman on campus nearly a dozen times on campus starting in November. The custodian, Derek Lisi, told the Boston Globe that he had alerted security to the suspect. ‘I said, ‘Something’s off with this guy, so I gotta say something,’
    …”

    ht* tps://thepostmillennial.com/brown-university-police-chief-put-on-leave-effective-immediately-as-trump-admin-investigates-deadly-shooting?utm_campaign=64470

  4. ICE Mounts ‘Operation Angel’s Honor’ in Laken Riley’s Memory, Nets Over 1,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens.



    ‘We named this operation ‘Angel’s Honor’ in honor of the memory of Laken Riley, whose life was tragically cut short by illegal alien crime,’ said ICE Director Todd Lyons. ‘This operation, while a massive success, also serves as a solemn reminder of the profound impact that immigrant violence and crime can have on victims and their loved ones. ICE’s mission is to ensure that no more Americans will fall victim to illegal alien crime.’

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials apprehended over 1,030 illegal aliens using its authority under the Laken Riley Act during its two-week Operation Angel’s Honor, The Post has learned.

    The sweeping operation, which wrapped up Monday, was conducted in memory of Laken Riley, a nursing student who was brutally bludgeoned to death last year by an illegal immigrant while out for a jog.

    ICE listed about a dozen of ‘the worst of the worst’ criminal illegals it took off the street during Operation Angel’s Honor. Most were military-aged young men and a handful of women who have records of rape, murder, torture, indecency with minors; the list is quite awful. …

    Jocelyn Nungaray. Rachel Morin. Megan Bos. Ivory Smith and hundreds of others who were brutalized and suffered untimely deaths at the hands of criminal illegals should never be forgotten. Just as GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh (AZ-08) is pushing a bill to establish a memorial honoring the families who have lost their loved ones at the hands of illegal aliens, so initiatives like Operation Angel’s Honor are a reminder of not just what has been stolen, but of the work still left to be done to secure America’s borders.
    …”

    ht* tps://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/23/ice-mounts-operation-angels-honor-in-laken-rileys-memory-nets-1300-illegal-aliens-n2197417

    1. What’s the matter the with it?

      I might be willing to overlook Harmeet’s satanic incantation at the RNC if she does some good here.

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