DC Avoids Second Amendment Challenge to Gun Magazine Restriction

Two Washington, DC, residents and a gun rights advocacy group can’t pursue their Second Amendment challenge to the district’s ban on firearm magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.

The plaintiffs’ allegations are “plainly insufficient to establish their standing” under US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit precedent, which requires individuals mounting a pre-enforcement constitutional challenge to show a credible threat of being prosecuted, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in a Monday order dismissing the suit.

Washington in 2009 banned the large-capacity magazines, and the DC Circuit in 2011 ...