Bad News for GFWs everywhere.

Gun-fearing wusses everywhere better stock up on clean undies, because it looks like they're going to start pissing themselves soon.

The US Supreme Court

struck down the DC handgun ban

as unconstitutional today, 5-4. The ones in favor were the ones with brains: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kenndedy.

The Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home," Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington's requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, but left intact the licensing of guns.

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Well, anyone who paid attention in civics class knows that.

But guess what? The usual suspects (Justices Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and Steven Breyer) had a fit.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, "In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."

They wouldn't be crime-ridden if law-abiding citizens were allowed to defend themselves.

Here's some more good news:

The NRA will file lawsuits in San Francisco, Chicago and several of its suburbs challenging handgun restrictions there based on Thursday's outcome.

Go for it, NRA. Make Charlton proud.