Good news for me and other plaintiffs who are seeking our Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia! The D.C. Circuit has denied the defendants’ motions to summarily affirm the lower court’s decision, or direct that the case be dismissed. Our motions to issue a briefing schedule and set oral argument are granted.
Our original motion is here; the motion to dismiss is here; the decision that was just handed down that denied the motion to dismiss and that set oral argument is here.
Good work. What happens after this?
The lawyers do their lawyer thing and present our case to the circuit court of appeals. I don’t think that there’s much more for me to do other than to root on our lawyers.
There is something that U.S. citizens in other jurisdictions can do, which is to write letters to legislators expressing their strong support for the constitutional right to keep and bear arms and insisting that they will watch legislators’ votes on Second Amendment issues. (And in other countries, where the right to keep and bear arms is also under threat or severely attenuated, I hope that people will encourage legislators to respect the right of the people to defend themselves and to own firearms for that purpose.)