Norton Highlights Unique Risk to D.C. Gun Laws at COR Hearing on Gun Violence

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At today's House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) highlighted the unique risk to the District of Columbia's gun violence prevention laws. Without statehood, D.C. could have its gun violence prevention laws, including its bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, overturned by a Republican Congress.

"Republicans in the House and Senate have repeatedly tried to overturn D.C.'s common-sense gun violence prevention laws, including in this Congress," Norton said. "It is clear that there is a common denominator in the mass shootings that occur over and over in America: assault weapons. Until D.C. has statehood, D.C.'s laws, including its ban on assault weapons, are subject to the whims of Congress, and they are at serious risk if Republicans take over Congress next year."

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