Lawyer who wiped out DC Gun Bam says it’s about liberties, not guns.
Date: Mar 18, 2007 7:08 PM
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“To [lawyer Robert A. Levy] the libertarian … the effectiveness of the
[District of Columbia gun ban] law — its success or failure in curbing
crime — isn’t the core issue. What matters most to him is whether the
statute unjustly infringes on personal liberties. He doesn’t dispute
that ‘reasonable’ gun controls are permissible under the Second
Amendment. But the District’s law amounts to ‘an outright prohibition,’
Levy said, and ‘that offends my constitutional sensibilities.’”

Lawyer Who Wiped Out D.C. Ban Says It’s About Liberties, Not Guns
By Paul Duggan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2007; A01
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Meet the lawyer who conceived the lawsuit that gutted the District’s
tough gun-control statute this month. Meet the lawyer who recruited a
group of strangers to sue the city and bankrolled their successful
litigation out of his own pocket.

Meet Robert A. Levy, staunch defender of the Second Amendment, a wealthy
former entrepreneur who said he has never owned a firearm and probably
never will.

“I don’t actually want a gun,” Levy said by phone last week from his
residence, a $1.7 million condominium in a Gulf Coast high-rise. “I
mean, maybe I’d want a gun if I was living on Capitol Hill. Or in
Anacostia somewhere. But I live in Naples, Florida, in a gated
community. I don’t feel real threatened down here.”

He is 65, a District native who left the city 40 years ago for
Montgomery County,

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !