Legal guns in D.C. not used one year later
July 22, 2009
Washington Times
7/17/2009
It’s been a year since a Northwest D.C. housewife carried a Ruger .357 Magnum into police headquarters in a blue plastic grocery bag and became the District’s first legal handgun owner since the Supreme Court overturned a decades-old ban.
Today, Amy McVey’s handgun is one of just 515 that have been legally registered with the Metropolitan Police Department — a number that pales compared with more than 2,000 illegal weapons that have been seized in the same period.
She hasn’t had to use it to defend her home. Nor has anyone attempted to steal it and use it against her or to commit some other crime — undermining the most widely used arguments for and against permitting guns.
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