WASHINGTON – The attorney who got the Supreme Court to overturn the District of Columbia's handgun ban is now challenging rules that prohibit gun owners from carrying their weapons outside their homes. Attorney Alan Gura filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court challenging the gun laws the city passed in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. Those laws allow people to keep registered guns only at home for self-defense.
Three of the plaintiffs in the case are licensed D.C. gun owners who had applications rejected when they applied to carry their guns outside their homes.
Another from Maryland applied to carry his gun for self-defense while visiting D.C. after he was stopped for speeding and charged with carrying a loaded handgun in his car.