I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5150 
To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2010 
Mr. CHILDERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of 
Columbia. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Second Amendment 
Enforcement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The law-abiding citizens of the District of 
Columbia are deprived by local laws of handguns, ri-
fles, and shotguns that are commonly kept by law- 
abiding persons throughout the United States for 
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sporting use and for lawful defense of their persons, 
homes, businesses, and families. 
(2) The District of Columbia has among the 
highest per capita murder rates in the Nation, which 
may be attributed in part to local laws prohibiting 
possession of firearms by law-abiding persons who 
would otherwise be able to defend themselves and 
their loved ones in their own homes and businesses. 
(3) Officials of the District of Columbia have 
indicated their intention to continue to unduly re-
strict lawful firearm possession and use by citizens 
of the District. 
(4) Legislation is required to correct the Dis-
trict of Columbia’s law in order to restore the funda-
mental rights of its citizens under the Second 
Amendment to the United States Constitution and 
thereby enhance public safety. 
SEC. 3. REFORM DC COUNCIL’S AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT 
FIREARMS. 
Section 4 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to prohibit the 
killing of wild birds and wild animals in the District of 
Columbia’’, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 809; sec. 
1–303.43, D.C. Official Code), is amended by adding at 
the end the following: ‘‘Nothing in this section or any 
other provision of law shall authorize, or shall be con-
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strued to permit, the Council, the Mayor, or any govern-
mental or regulatory authority of the District of Columbia 
to prohibit, constructively prohibit, or unduly burden the 
ability of persons not prohibited from possessing firearms 
under Federal law from acquiring, possessing in their 
homes or businesses, transporting for legitimate purposes, 
or using for sporting, self-protection or other lawful pur-
poses, any firearm neither prohibited by Federal law nor 
subject to the National Firearms Act. The District of Co-
lumbia shall not have authority to enact laws or regula-
tions that discourage or eliminate the private ownership 
or use of firearms. Nothing in the previous two sentences 
shall be construed to prohibit the District of Columbia 
from regulating the carrying of firearms by a person, ei-
ther concealed or openly, other than at the person’s dwell-
ing place, place of business, or on other land possessed 
by the person.’’. 
SEC. 4. REPEAL DC SEMIAUTOMATIC BAN. 
Section 101(10) of the Firearms Control Regulations 
Act of 1975 (sec. 7–2501.01(10), D.C. Official Code) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(10) ‘Machine gun’ means any firearm which 
shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily re-
stored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, 
without manual reloading, by a single function of 
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