A federal judge Saturday said the District of Columbia cannot prohibit the carrying of handguns for self-defense in public, a ruling that comes a little more than six years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck the city’s firearms ban.
The high court in June 2008 in District of Columbia v. Heller struck the District’s ban on handguns in residences. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the justices effectively voided that city’s firearms ban.
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