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The ban against public safety; D.C. gun laws have increased crime.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 11-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 814 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The ban against public safety; D.C. gun laws have increased crime.(OPED)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Eli Lehrer and John R. Lott Jr., SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Since 1976, D.C. residents have lived under the nation's most restrictive gun laws: Police enforce a citywide handgun ban, and local statutes require residents to keep long guns disassembled, unloaded and locked up. The law even forbids target shooting. Those who envision the United States as a violent cowboy nation might take comfort in knowing that this regime offers more restrictions than the laws anywhere else in the United States, in Canada, or indeed, in any major European Union nation.

Even in a nation where many see gun ownership as a birthright, D.C.'s gun-control regime, in effect since 1976, aroused surprisingly little controversy until recently. Had the law...

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