A Washington, D.C. law that kept gun owners from carrying a handgun unless they had "good reason" has been struck down by a federal appeals court. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ordered lower courts to block enforcement of the law. Washington Times: "At the Second Amendment's core lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms for personal self-defense beyond the home, subject to longstanding restrictions," Judge Thomas B. Griffith wrote in the majority opinion. "These traditional limits include, for instance, licensing requirements, but not bans on carrying in urban areas like D.C. or bans on carrying absent a special need for self-defense." The ruling is the latest blow to the District's efforts to curtail gun possession and use. The Supreme Court struck down the city's near total ban on firearms possession in 2008, and a federal court blocked an effort to ban the carrying of firearms...(Read Full Post)