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gun ban struck down
In 1814, the British army attacked the city as a part of the [[War of 1812]] and burned a number of public buildings in the city, including the [[White House]]. First Lady Dolly Madison famously saved a portrait of [[George Washington]] from the White House before the building was burned. <ref>http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm</ref>
In 1814, the British army attacked the city as a part of the [[War of 1812]] and burned a number of public buildings in the city, including the [[White House]]. First Lady Dolly Madison famously saved a portrait of [[George Washington]] from the White House before the building was burned. <ref>http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm</ref>
On March 9, 2007, a U.S. Court of Appeals struck down Washington, D.C.'s ban on private [[handgun]] possession as an infringement on the [[Second Amendment]], which guarantees the right of individual citizens to keep and bear firearms. The sole dissenting judge dissented because she held that the District of Columbia is not a [[state]] and therefore the Second Amendment does not apply within the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban was one of the most restrictive in the nation. <ref>http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-03-09T223851Z_01_N09246717_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-GUNS-RULING.xml&src=rss</ref>
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