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Default House Approves Repeal of DC Handgun Ban

As someone who lived in DC for two years and is interested in guns, I thought that this might be of interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Sep29.html
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Default Re: House Approves Repeal of DC Handgun Ban

Whoops - I put in the WRONG link.

It looks like danp beat me to the punch.

Feel free to delete this thread or redirect to here:

http://www.pafoa.org/forum/news-123/...al-rights.html
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Default Re: House Approves Repeal of DC Handgun Ban

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As someone who lived in DC for two years and is interested in guns, I thought that this might be of interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Sep29.html
Wow that's great news, with that + the recent court ruling DC residents might finally be able to protect themselves from the criminals that have been ruling their streets.
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Wow that's great news, with that + the recent court ruling DC residents might finally be able to protect themselves from the criminals that have been ruling their streets.
Unfortunatey it isn't news. I heard about the 2-1 decision today, googled it, found another similar article (dated from 2004!) and didn't think before posting it ;-(
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FYI, an interesting article regarding the overturning of the DC gun ban:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...VmY2YxM2I5YmU=
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