NRA settles lawsuit with San Fran Housing Authority
After the Heller decision by the Supreme Court the NRA immediately contacted a number of municipalities about bans enacted against law-abiding citizens owning guns. Some of those, notably smaller cities and towns surrounding Chicago, lifted their bans almost immediately and without a lawsuit. Others, such as Chicago itself, have remained in non-compliance and are the subjects of lawsuits filed. Another of those was the San Francisco Housing Authority which had enacted a ban on gun ownership for anyone living in public housing. Constitutional protections don’t recognize the act of living in public housing as a waiver of one’s rights so the NRA filed suit to have the ban lifted. As of Friday, the SFHA agreed to do so, settling the suit:
A federal lawsuit filed by NRA to challenge a San Francisco Housing Authority ban on firearms in public housing has been settled.
NRA sued the housing authority following last summer’s historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller that found that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans.
Under the settlement, signed by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson on Monday, the agency will no longer enforce a 2005 rule that prohibited the otherwise legal possession of guns and ammunition in public housing units.
The Housing Authority signed off on the measure and has agreed to allow its residents to own guns.
Good to hear. Welcome back to your civil rights, San Franciscans. At least, those of you living in public housing.
