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D.C. Firearms Control Regulations Act

1975Cold War

The District of Columbia bars registration of handguns acquired after 1976 and requires firearms kept at home to be unloaded and disassembled or trigger-locked. Thirty-three years later it becomes the law struck down in District of Columbia v. Heller.

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