Supreme Court to hear challenge to Washington, D.C., gun law
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Former U.S. deputy attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. said that weakening the gun law " opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets. (article 6)
Some scholars said that a D.C. loss in the high court could create a stronger precedent against strict gun laws. (article 6)
WASHINGTON For more than 30 years, the District of Columbia has had the nation's strictest gun-control law a ban on having handguns at home for self-defense. (article 5)
Few would cite D.C.'s gun ban as proof that gun control leads to crime control, as the city continues to have one of the nation's highest rates of violent crime. (article 5)
The US Supreme Court will this week step into a politically explosive case over gun rights that could influence some voters in the forth coming general election. (article 1)
The case is likely to produce the most important firearms ruling in generations and could undermine other gun control laws nationwide if the court takes an expansive view of the right to bear arms. (article 3)
The panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit became the nation's first federal appeals court to overturn a gun-control law by declaring that the Second Amendment grants a person the right to possess firearms. (article 4)
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Gun, Amendment, handguns, law, ban |
Source articles
- US court to review ‘right to bear arms’ (ft.com, 03/16/2008, 495 words)
- D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 509 words)
- D.C. Gun Ban's Effectiveness Questioned (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 1045 words)
- D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 521 words)
- Supreme Court to hear challenge to Washington, D.C., gun law (L.A. Times, 03/16/2008, 807 words)
- D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out (Washington Post, 03/16/2008, 238 words)
- Fighting Gun Traffickers Involves Lots of Legwork, a Little Luck (Washington Post, 03/15/2008, 447 words)
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