D.C. Mayor Vince Gray says his pro-gun control laws stance stems from a childhood incident when a gun went off while his older brother was cleaning it.
When Gray was a kid, he said, his father kept a gun in the house.
One evening, his parents went out and his brother, who was a “mechanical genius,” took the gun out and began cleaning it. Gray went to the bathroom and while he was in there he heard a loud “boom.”
His brother hadn’t realized there was a bullet in the chamber. The gun sent the bullet “through the furniture where I had been standing,” Gray said. “It left an indelible impression on me on what can happen when people have guns in their house.”
Gray was responding to a question regarding his thoughts on a Washington Post report that found wealthy D.C. residents have registered the most handguns since ownership in the District became legal 2 1/2 years ago.
