There was a gun amendment attached to it to wipe out D.C.'s gun laws.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “There was a gun amendment attached to it to wipe out D.C.'s gun laws.”
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Norton explains why the D.C. Statehood bill failed in 2009.
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