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When it comes to providing good legal reasoning about the District of Columbia's gun laws, the Bush administration is firing blanks. The D.C. handgun ban – enacted in 1976 as one of the most stringent in the nation - was found unconstitutional last year by the federal D.C. Court of Appeals and goes to the Supreme Court this year. Just about every analyst in America expected the Bush administration to weigh in against the handgun ban. In addition to the countless constitutional, legal and historical reasons for doing so, Bush no doubt remembers that gun owners put him over the top in West Virginia in his razor-thin 2000 victory over Al Gore. That's why even the lawyers for the D.C. government who were defending the handgun ban were shocked this week when the administration filed a brief urging the Supreme Court not to declare the handgun ban unconstitutional. Instead, the administration argued, the justices should send the case back to federal district court for further fact-finding and hair-splitting. In plain language, this is called a 'cop-out.'

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