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District of Columbia Firearms History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:25.403Z

Spent some time this week going down a rabbit hole on DC firearms history, and it's worth talking through because the legal and political threads here run directly through the rights every one of us exercises today. Understanding DC's firearms history means understanding how one city's political decisions forced the entire country to finally answer a question that had been deferred for nearly 70 years. That's not an exaggeration. Heller came out of DC specifically because DC's weird constit...

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District of Columbia Firearms History

No other jurisdiction in the United States has shaped national firearms law more directly than the District of Columbia -- and done so almost entirely by trying to eliminate guns from civilian hands. The ten-square-mile federal enclave carved from Ma

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