Fox News has an article on the DC federal Circuit Court’s decision to strike down DC’s concealed handgun law (a copy of the decision is available here). The Fox News article contains this:
John R. Lott, Jr. of the Crime Prevention Research Center called the decision huge.
Right now, there are about 124 concealed handgun permit holders in D.C., Lott told Fox News. “If D.C. were like the 42 right-to-carry states, they would have about 48,000 permits. Right now D.C. prevents the most vulnerable people, particularly poor blacks who live in high crime areas of D.C., from having any hope of getting a permit for protection. . . .
New American, July 25, 2017
John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center, called the decision “huge,” adding that if the District of Columbia had laws similar to those in the 42 right-to-carry states, it would have about 48,000 concealed carry permits. At present it has 124. Said Lott: “Right now, D.C. prevents the most vulnerable people, particularly poor blacks who live in high crime areas of D.C., from having any hope of getting a permit for protection.” . . .
Thank you SAF for taking this case. Please come to Hawaii next which issues no CCW permits. Appeal Baker v. Hawaii, originally argued in December 2012 on same day as Peruta v. San Diego County. Both found in favor of the plaintiffs but overturned by the 9th Circuit en banc reversal of Peruta. Time for SCOTUS to uphold the 2A.
If it were me, I would have waited a while to bring up all the cases. If DC wins the en banc decision as seems extremely likely and the Supreme Court again doesn’t take this type of case, all that has been accomplished by all these cases is to establish a lot of bad precedences that will be very difficult to challenge in the future. Without any more circuit courts that haven’t weighed in that could, you are going to be in a lot of trouble.