Since 1976, D.C. residents have lived under the nation`s most restrictive gun laws: Police enforce a 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 U.S. as a violent cowboy nation might take comfort in knowing that this regime offers more restrictions than the laws anywhere else in the U.S., in Canada, or indeed, in any major European Union nation.
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