Despite Clinton’s claims, DC gun ban did little to ‘protect toddlers’

Published October 20, 2016 3:41am ET



Pushed on her beliefs about the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton defended her support of Washington, D.C.’s now defunct handgun ban as part of a larger effort to protect children from firearm-related accidents.

When asked her opposition to D.C. v. Heller, the landmark Supreme Court case overturning the ban, the Democrat said she “disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in that case.”

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