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The Executive Director of Gun Owners of America denounced yesterday's action
of the D.C. City Council in response to the Supreme Court's Heller ruling
and predicted that its "emergency legislation" would be challenged and
overturned.GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt characterized the council's action by
saying: "It is no wonder that the District is awash with lawlessness. The
contempt for the law starts in the city council chambers."

The District's emergency action would keep the unconstitutional gun license
requirement; keep the unconstitutional semiautomatic ban; and impose new
unconstitutional ballistics, testing and fingerprint requirements on those
wishing to exercise their right to keep a firearm for self-defense.

But, even more flagrantly, the District would maintain the trigger lock and
unloaded gun requirements which were explicitly overturned by the High
Court.

"The District appears to be dutifully passing what the Brady folks drafted
for it," said Pratt. "But while interim D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles
fancies that they have crafted 'model' legislation, it is in fact a model
for litigative defeat and more court-administered humiliation."

Pratt predicted that the council's action would be challenged and
overturned. And he also called on Congress to exercise its constitutional
responsibility under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, to rein in the lawless
D.C. government.

"The District needs to be reined in for its lawless actions," Pratt said.
"It's about time that Congress takes its responsibility to do so seriously."

-GOA-

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