DC Government Requests Pause in Lawsuit Against Its Ban on AR-15 Rifles

Lawyers for the District of Columbia asked a federal district court on July 11 to put a challenge to the capital city’s ban on so-called assault weapons on hold temporarily. They argued in newly filed papers in the case of Yzaguirre v. District of Columbia that the delay would save legal resources because an appeals court will soon rule in another related challenge. Gun control supporters say the ban is a public-spirited safety measure. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is “poised” in the other case, Hanson v. District of Columbia, to resolve “legal questions about the scope of the Second Amendment and what showings a challenger to a weapons ban must make,” the lawyers wrote in a motion to stay the case....