Washington Post
With three pit bulls attacking a young boy on the street outside his Northwest Washington home in January, he grabbed a 9mm Ruger P90 handgun from his bedroom, ran outside, and shot and killed one of the dogs. A D.C. police officer shot and killed the other two.
With three pit bulls attacking a young boy on the street outside his Northwest Washington home in January, he grabbed a 9mm Ruger P90 handgun from his bedroom, ran outside, and shot and killed one of the dogs. A D.C. police officer shot and killed the other two.
Srigley legally bought the handgun in Virginia but failed to register it in the District. His act of saving a child’s life exposed him as a criminal, and as unwitting fodder for gun-rights advocates who saw his case a perfect example of why they assail as draconian the District’s laws that make owning guns exceedingly difficult.
Srigley’s action left the D.C. attorney general’s office, which typically prosecutes gun offenses involving unregistered firearms, with a conundrum: criminally charge and possibly jail a man deemed a hero in his Brightwood neighborhood, or leave him be and endure criticism that some of the strictest gun laws in the nation are not evenly enforced.
You left out the part about how he has to leave D.C. and pay a fine.
ReplyDeleteYour relationship with the truth is ever more tenuous.
Delete"Then, after a planned move to Maryland, he would register his handgun and two long guns he had in storage."
And that proves what, exactly?
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