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When the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller in June, it looked like curtains for the capital's draconian gun laws.(The Week)(Brief article)
When the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller in June, it looked like curtains for the capital's draconian gun laws. But not so fast: The Court forbade the city only to ban "handguns." Recently D.C. decided to get around this by allowing revolvers but banning all guns capable of accepting magazines--that is, semiautomatic handguns, which are some of the most common weapons in America. It is unlikely this move will pass judicial scrutiny; after all, the majority ...
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