D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine will appeal a federal judge’s decision against the city’s concealed carry law, DCist reported Tuesday.

District laws state that a resident must have a “good reason to fear injury to his or her person or property” or “any other proper reason for carrying a pistol” to have a concealed weapon. Tuesday’s ruling marks the second time a judge has ruled against the law.

“We believe that the District’s gun laws are reasonable and necessary to ensure public safety in a dense urban area, and we will request a stay of this decision while we appeal,” Racine said in a statement.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s decision Tuesday forbids officers in the Metropolitan Police Department from enforcing the law. In his decision, Leon said residents will be in more harm if they cannot carry concealed firearms.

Leon added that the law is “inconsistent with the individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment,” according to DCist.

The Supreme Court struck down the city’s blanket ban on handguns in 2007. After the decision, D.C. passed additional laws increasing registration requirements for weapons.