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« repeat offenders and DC homicides | Main | liberalism and law school faculties »

Early DC gun control and the burning of Washington

Posted by David Hardy · 30 August 2015 11:54 AM

My Primal Scream has an interesting post on the matter. From 1803 onward, DC forbade its militiamen to show up for muster while carrying arms, and also tightly controlled the possession of flints. By 1812 only a third of its military had the required muskets, and those of course lacked flints. Congress protested without avail.

While there were a great many causes for the American rout at the Battle of Bladensburg (terrible tactics, divided command, use of Revolution War drill in place of the more modern systems evolved out of the Napoleonic Wars), the fact that Washington's militia was largely disarmed and short on flints (and got into position late because it took time to issue the flints) certainly didn't help things.

2 Comments | Leave a comment

Harold | August 31, 2015 4:12 PM | Reply

Errr, is there any evidence of these anti-gun City of Washington laws? Maybe they are commonly known about by domain experts like you, but I wasn't able to find any with my Google Fu, and the author of this essay didn't link to any.

Marcus Poulin | September 3, 2015 2:23 PM | Reply

I wrote an article about the Battle of Bladensburg and Marine Corps Barracks at 8th & I.

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