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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked a lower court's order mandating that the District process concealed-carry applications and disregard its "good" or "proper" purpose requirement.

Yesterday we reported that District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier advised civilians that it is often preferable to neutralize an active shooter rather than waiting for law enforcement.

Cathy Lanier, police chief in the District of Columbia and noted anti-gun stalwart, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” about what ordinary people should do in the case of a mass shooting such as the Paris attacks.

U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin granted a preliminary injunction stopping the District of Columbia from requiring concealed-carry permit applicants to prove they have “good reason” for wanting to carry.

In a 2-to-1 vote, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the District of Columbia can continue to require residents to demonstrate a “good reason” to carry a firearm until it can hear further argument.

Anti-gun politicians in the District of Columbia have been vocally opposed to new legislation aimed at overriding the local gun laws. Mayor Muriel Bowser has spoken out in defense of the district’s ban on concealed carry, but (non-voting) Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton took a most stridently anti-gun line.

The District of Columbia’s continued effort to ban the right to keep and bear arms suffered another blow yesterday when a federal judge issued an injunction prohibiting D.C. from requiring lawful citizens to show “good reason” before being granted a permit to carry a firearm.