A 66-year-old security guard whose lawsuit overturned the District’s handgun ban is now officially authorized to keep a revolver in his Capitol Hill home.
Dick A. Heller was given his handgun registration certificate at D.C. police headquarters yesterday.
He applied for it last month, a few weeks after the June 26 landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling favoring gun-ownership rights, and he had been waiting for police to complete a background check.
Heller recently sued the city again, saying the registration rules adopted by the D.C. government after the ban was overturned are too cumbersome and violate the spirit and letter of the court’s decision.