Mayor Gray pushes back against effort to ease D.C. gun penalties

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration said Monday that it opposes a plan to ease penalties for nonresidents who inadvertently break the city’s gun laws, which are some of the nation’s most restrictive.

“The bill sends the wrong signal at the wrong time,” D.C. Deputy Attorney General Andrew Fois said. “It is, of course, a well-established principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse, and we should not create any kind of expectation that ignorance of the gun laws of the nation’s capital can be an exception.”