According to the Washington Post (reg. req):
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District’s gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city’s leaders as a historic violation of home rule.By a vote of 250 to 171, the House passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end the District’s 1976 ban on handguns and semiautomatic weapons, roll back registration requirements for ammunition and decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and possession of guns in homes or workplaces.
The bill also would prohibit the mayor and D.C. Council from enacting gun limits that exceed federal law or “discourage…the private ownership or use of firearms.”
Of course the bill won’t pass, especially in a corrupt, broken-down city where the criminals run the show. I’ll have more to say on this later. In the meantime, read about what I think of DC’s gun ban.
