The District will not charge the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” with a crime for brandishing a high-capacity magazine as a prop during a December interview with a National Rifle Association official.

D.C. authorities spent several weeks investigating David Gregory’s actions, but the city’s attorney general announced Friday that he would not file charges against the journalist, who could have faced up to a year in jail if convicted of a crime.

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