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House passes bill cutting back DC gun laws
Posted by David Hardy · 17 September 2008 10:11 AM
Story here. As predicted, the mushy version went down in flames, and the stronger one passed 266-152. From here it goes to the Senate, with uncertain results.
Hat tip to reader Ambiguous Ambiguae...
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Now if they were to strike the word 'unduly', they might have something there.....
here's a link to the text of the bill referred to in the AP article.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6691:
I don't know how up to date it is.
I see a big problem with it. Section 3 reads in part:
"Nothing ... shall authorize ... the District of Columbia to ... unduly burden ... persons ... possessing firearms..."
The problem is that DC has a dramatically different idea of what "unduly burden" means, and apparently they can still make laws burdening the right to arms.