Keep Gun Ban on DC Metro, Biden Administration Urges Court

A single rider waits on a train platform at the Archives station as weekday rail ridership across the Metro system is down nearly 90-percent due to the coronavirus pandemic in Washington on March 25, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Biden administration is urging a federal judge to uphold Washington’s ban on individuals carrying firearms on the city’s crime-ridden local public transit system popularly known as the DC Metro.

The lawsuit is one of many filed nationwide challenging gun laws after the Supreme Court’s landmark 6–3 ruling on June 23 recognizing a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The opinion states that to ban concealed weapons in a specific place, “the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation.”