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The Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 was passed by the District of Columbia city council on June 29, 1976,"Gun Control Bill In Washington, D.C.", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 1976, p. 2DWEB,weblink Government Reform to Review D.C. s Handgun Ban, Congressman Thomas M. Davis, Tom Davis, 2007-03-09,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070228194658weblink">weblink 2007-02-28, dead, and went into effect September 24, 1976."Washington Gets Tough Gun Law", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 24, 1976, p. 16A The law banned residents from owning handguns, automatic firearms, or high-capacity semi-automatic firearms, as well as prohibited possession of unregistered firearms. Exceptions to the ban were allowed for police officers and guns registered before 1976. The law also required firearms kept in the home to be "unloaded, disassembled, or bound by a trigger lock or similar device";WEB,weblink The Case For Reforming The District of Columbia's Gun Laws, National Rifle Association, this was deemed to be a prohibition on the use of firearms for self-defense in the home.WEB,weblink Case No. 04-7041, Parker v. D.C., 2008-02-12, Senior Circuit Judge Silberman, 2007-03-09, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 58

District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court of the United States determined that the ban and trigger lock provisions violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution>Second Amendment. Constitutionality Washington, D.C.'s gun laws are considered by many to be the strictest in the United States, and have been challenged as infringing on constitutional rights protected by the United States Constitution's Second Amendment.JOURNAL, Kates, Jr. Don B., Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, Michigan Law Review, 204, 1983, JOURNAL, Reynolds, Glenn Harlan, A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, Tennessee Law Review, 461, 1995, BOOK, Hirschman, Albert O., The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy,weblink registration, 1991, NEWS, Polsby, Daniel P., The False Promise of Gun Control, Atlantic Monthly, March 1994, On March 9, 2007, portions of the law were declared unconstitutional by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling in the case District of Columbia v. Heller.NEWS,weblink Appeals Court Guts D.C. Gun Ban, Miller, Bill and Robert Barnes, 2007-03-09, The Washington Post, After the District's application for a rehearing en banc was denied, it appealed the decision to the Supreme Court of the United States. On June 26, 2008, the Court determined that the ban and trigger lock provision violate the Second Amendment.WEB, United States: Gun Ownership and the Supreme Court,weblink Library of Congress, 7 December 2015, {{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} However, the ruling does not prohibit all forms of gun control; laws requiring firearm registration remain in place as does the city's assault weapon restriction.NEWS, David, Nakamura, D.C. Attorney General: All Guns Must Be Registered, 2008-06-26,weblink The Washington Post, 2008-06-26, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081011085230weblink">weblink 2008-10-11, See also Crime in Washington, D.C. District of Columbia home rule District of Columbia v. Heller Gun politics in the United States Warren v. District of Columbia External links Text of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 References {{reflist|30em}}