The spin has started...as has the website redesign...

http://www.bradycampaign.org/

http://www.vpc.org/

fascinating...!

From the VPC just moments ago....

Statement of VPC on Supreme Court Ruling in District of Columbia v.
Heller Overturning DC Handgun Ban

Ruling Should Allow Ban on Semiautomatic Handguns to Stand

Statement of Violence Policy Center on Supreme Court Ruling in
District of Columbia v. Heller Overturning DC Handgun Ban

Supreme Court Ruling Overturning DC Handgun Ban Should Allow Ban on
Semiautomatic Handguns to Stand

Washington, DC--Following today’s 5-4 Supreme Court opinion authored
by 2007 Sport Shooting Ambassador Award winner Antonin Scalia (see
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-s..._b_109367.html
for more info) overturning Washington, DC’s handgun ban, but
apparently allowing for the retention of the law’s ban on most
semiautomatic weapons, including semiautomatic handguns (see
background information after statement), Violence Policy Center (VPC)
Legislative Director Kristen Rand states:

“Today’s opinion turns legal logic and common sense on its head. As
measured in gun death and injury, handguns are our nation’s most
lethal category of firearm: accounting for the vast majority of the
30,000 Americans who die from guns each year. Handguns are our
nation’s leading murder and suicide tool. Yet the majority opinion
offers the greatest offender the strongest legal protection. It’s
analogous to the Court carving out special constitutional protection
for child pornography in a First Amendment case.

“In its ruling, the Court has ignored our nation’s history of mass
shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence. It has
instead accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous
real-world results for residents of the District of Columbia.
Thankfully, because the plaintiff in Heller did not challenge the
District's ban on "machine guns," Washington, DC’s ban on most
semiautomatic weapons, including semiauto handguns, should be
unaffected.”

The ruling comes one day after a Kentucky factory worker killed five
co-workers with a handgun before taking his own life. For a copy of
the amicus brief submitted by the VPC in the case, please see
http://www.vpc.org/hellerbrief.pdf.

Background Information

The Court’s ruling today does not appear to affect the District’s ban
on “machine guns,” which under DC law includes any gun “which shoots,
is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot
semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading.” This
definition would include virtually all semiautomatic handguns. As a
result, the District’s ban can remain in force for those types of
handguns, commonly known as pistols. In essence, the Court’s ruling
for the most part will only affect revolvers and derringers.
****

Then one assumes then that all those police officers carry" Machine
Gun" Glocks?

The confusion is glorious!