Childers gets win in House over D.C. guns
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:20 pm
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Childers gets win in House over D.C. guns
Ana Radelat • Clarion-Ledger Washington Bureau • September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — Rep. Travis Childers notched his first major legislative win Wednesday when the House approved his amendment to reverse a 32-year ban on gun ownership in the nation's capital.
The amendment was approved on a 266-152 vote. It follows a Supreme Court decision declaring the District of Columbia's gun ban - imposed in 1976 - unconstitutional.
Childers' legislation, an amendment to narrower legislation by the District's Democratic delegate in Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, would allow sales of a wide range of guns and ammunition. It also would overturn a D.C. law requiring firearms kept in the home be locked up and inoperable and would relax registration requirements.
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