Registered rifle and shotgun owners may no longer face felony charges for carrying their weapons in Washington, DC due to concerns the district’s restrictive gun laws run afoul of Supreme Court rulings, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro explained Tuesday.
The policy shift, first reported by the Washington Post, comes after Pirro said she received guidance from the Justice Department and solicitor general determining that DC’s prohibitions on registered, but non-permitted, rifle and shotgun owners violate the Second Amendment.
The DC law “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings,” Pirro told the Washington Post, confirming the Trump administration’s memo. …
DC’s stringent gun laws prohibit open carry and, in general, require individuals to obtain a concealed-carry permit – which are not issued for shotguns or rifles – in order to leave home with a firearm.
Unlawfully carrying a registered long gun in DC can result in a fine and imprisonment for up to five years.
— Victor Nava in Pirro to ease prosecutions for carrying registered rifles, shotguns — calls DC law ‘violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings’
From the linked NY Post article:
“Pirro, a notoriously tough-on-crime former judge, was adamant that the new guidance would not impact her ability to prosecute gun crimes, and get illegal firearms off the streets of the nation’s capital.
‘Nothing in this memo from the Department of Justice and the Office of Solicitor General precludes the United States Attorney’s Office from charging a felon with the possession of a firearm, which includes a rifle, shotgun, and attendant large capacity magazine pursuant to DC Code 22-4503,’ she told the outlet.
‘What it does preclude is a separate charge of possession of a registered rifle or shotgun,’ she added.”
So the anti-gun complaint that this would be a ‘lax firearms law’ is still the same BS it always was. There is no such ‘lax firearm’ law in the nation (i.e. permitless carry states) that allows a prohibited person to be armed or allows a ‘felony’ use or carry of a firearm – the anti-gun BS on this has always been a lie. And despite years of looking to date I have yet to find even one of the ‘rivers of blood’ in the streets that anti-gun claims will appear if law abiding people carry firearms without a permission slip ‘carry permit’.
There ARE rivers of blood in some places.
Interestingly, they’re all in places with lots of really draconian anti-gun laws. Which don’t seem to be used to actually stop bad people from getting and using guns. Huh.
“There ARE rivers of blood in some places.”
yeah, from the criminals who already carried, and do carry, guns without permits even in states with draconian anti-gun laws.
But not because law abiding people were allowed by law to carry guns without permits.
It’s not a utopia. It never will be. But it’s a great improvement. We are still winning.
And it’s interesting that so many people are complaining, about the feds confiscation of guns by known felons??? And violent felons at that.
As far as open carry goes. The “gun community” doesn’t support the open carry of Arms. That is an act of the 1st amendment.
And the “gun community” doesn’t support the 1st amendment.
Have you heard of the Mulford Act???
But you can p;@”r@,de around with a st.r@p on di.L:d.0 well fitted for public attire.
In fact you can see all kinds of crazy things openly done at g;@,y pr!d;e p;@.r@d.es.
They have 1st amendment right to do those things. I’m told.
But they don’t want you to open carry guns. So many have traded their 2A civil rights for “the right” to have se.zu.al de.gen,er@.cy in public.
I open carry all the time. I also support the First Amendment. If someone is trusted to be in public unsupervised, they deserve all of their rights. That includes felons. If they’ve served their time, their debt to society is deemed paid. If they can’t be trusted to have all of their rights back, they shouldn’t be released.
“ Registered rifle and shotgun owners may no longer face felony charges…”
So what the heck !
“Registered…owners”
I don’t think so.
Unconditionally unconstitutional.
Can someone explain THAT to me ?
That is what you get from continuously electing s0.ci@”li.st pr0″gres.s!ve democrats.
What they are doing is doing away with the unconstitutional D.C. ban on carrying ‘registered’ rifle and shotgun in public.
anyway…Mark Smith has a video for it….BREAKING 2A NEWS JUST NOW: TRUMP DOJ REFUSES TO ENFORCE GUN BANS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJYCjIHPs8
“Unconditionally unconstitutional.
Can someone explain THAT to me ?”
Yes, its unconstitutional. But the current law in DC is “Registered…owners” as in the firearm ‘registered’ and they aren’t circumventing the D.C. law.
Yes, because Congress won’t do what it is supposed to do, and always tries to avoid responsibility, Trump can’t do what his admin would likely do. All he can do is work around the laws that Congress has allowed to be passed.
Let your congresscritters know you want them to do their job and actually fix DC’s problematic gun laws.
(BTW, Congress did its job with some home rule laws at one point. But their repeal of them got vetoed by Slow Joe’s admin.)
They have to be able to solve murders with those guns, don’t you know?
I mean, they can’t point to any actual crimes solved (except, maybe a stolen firearm they could return to the proper owner) by tracing the firearm back to its original manufacture. But it’s somehow important they be able to do that.
Democrats are in trouble: NYT Throws BUCKETS Of Ice Water On Dems As Dem Brand Is “HEMORRHAGING VOTERS”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGpz6UM8HF0
The Democrats don’t like Hakeem any more and want him gone – even the radical left: Hakeem Jeffries ‘Gets’ [well, they wanna have him] KICKED OUT of The Democrat Party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEp2nUVDtE
Stephen A. Smith Drops a BOMBSHELL as CNN SHOCKS The World!!! [the most left wing anti-trump person at CNN agrees with Trumps actions, Clinton & Obama & Biden created the conditions for the Ukraine war that allowed Russia to invade]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMI6imGJK60
Pirro Announces End of Felony Charges for Carrying Rifles, Shotguns in D.C.—Democrats Hardest Hit
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‘Gun violence.’ ‘Gun crime.’ ‘Assault rifles.’ ‘Why does anyone need an AR-15?’
The list goes on, with the above code words and phrases perched atop the Democrat Party’s list of scaremongering attacks against the Second Amendment and America’s law-abiding gun owners.
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In response to a request for comment from the New York Post, Pirro wrote:
Criminal culpability is not determined by the instruments people employ but by the intent and conduct of the actor.
Crimes are intentional acts and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent by my office regardless of what instruments of criminality are used.
My job is to keep this city, its citizens, its businesses, and its visitors safe from harm and I will do that to the fullest extent of the law.
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https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/08/20/pirro-announces-end-of-felony-charges-for-carrying-rifles-shotguns-in-dcdemocrats-hardest-hit-n2193017
Now do non-resident concealed carry.
Patience.
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/federal-district-court-rules-nys-non-resident-carry-ban-violates-the-second-amendment/
Bank Execs Reveal How Obama and Biden Twisted Their Arms, Forced Them to Cancel Conservatives.
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Fox News Digital spoke with two executives at leading U.S. banks, who asked to remain anonymous, fearing reprisals.
The executives said that ambiguity in federal laws was exploited by regulators under the Obama and Biden administrations in order to pursue political objectives. According to one executive, banks were pressured to deny services to certain industries as part of Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0.
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https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/08/19/bank-execs-reveal-how-obama-and-biden-twisted-their-arms-forced-them-to-cancel-conservative-n2192983