Gun Owners’ Challenge to D.C. Magazine Limit Fails on Appeal (1)

Washington, D.C.'s ban on extra-large-capacity magazines is likely constitutional and can remain in place for now, a divided D.C. Circuit said Tuesday.

D.C. gun owners wishing to possess magazines holding more than 10 rounds didn’t persuade the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the District’s prohibition on such magazines falls short of US Supreme Court standards.

The majority agreed with the District that historical restrictions on particularly dangerous weapons and weapons capable of unprecedented lethality constitute a relevantly similar tradition, the per curiam majority opinion said.

“Those laws are commensurate with the District’s justification ...