Growing up, I didn’t talk much at home about the cases handled by my father, who is now retired. By the time he ruled in the Heller case, I had been a reporter at The New York Times for seven years. Washington is a fairly liberal city, and its residents have long favored gun control. There have been tussles between Congress and the city for decades over “home rule,” a notion that pivoted specifically on the city’s gun control laws. In the wake of these events, many gun control advocates cited the sniper killings as a catalyzing moment in their sense of urgency about the need for better tracking of ammunition.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2018 18:05 UTC