Post by Logan on Jun 24, 2016 2:08:46 GMT -6
Flanked by tables filled with assault rifles and long guns, the District’s mayor and police chief warned Thursday about what they called a proliferation of high-powered weapons on the streets of the nation’s capital.
Twice in the past week, Police Chief Cathy L Lanier officers seized AK-47s, one in the hands of a 17-year-old who also had 180 rounds of ammunition and had threatened to kill his girlfriend “and her entire family, and then shoot up her school.”
Lanier said cases like that and others “make you shudder.” Police said they’re seeing more and more shootouts on District streets in which “everybody is armed.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser joined Lanier, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and other officials are calling for “common-sense gun reform.” The event was intended to keep the gun issue in the District at the forefront as discussions continue in the aftermath of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando. It also came the same day that House Democrats staged a sit-in in the chamber to call for a vote on gun-control measures.
Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/mayor-police-chief-calling-for-common-sense-gun-reform/2016/06/23/a1f190e0-3934-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html
Twice in the past week, Police Chief Cathy L Lanier officers seized AK-47s, one in the hands of a 17-year-old who also had 180 rounds of ammunition and had threatened to kill his girlfriend “and her entire family, and then shoot up her school.”
Lanier said cases like that and others “make you shudder.” Police said they’re seeing more and more shootouts on District streets in which “everybody is armed.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser joined Lanier, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and other officials are calling for “common-sense gun reform.” The event was intended to keep the gun issue in the District at the forefront as discussions continue in the aftermath of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando. It also came the same day that House Democrats staged a sit-in in the chamber to call for a vote on gun-control measures.
Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/mayor-police-chief-calling-for-common-sense-gun-reform/2016/06/23/a1f190e0-3934-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html