Was The DC Gun Ban Enacted (At Least In Part) Because Of Ronald Reagan?

[orleans]

and the assassination attempt?

On March 30, 1981, Reagan, along with his press secretary James Brady and two others, were shot by a would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch<71> the bullet instead pierced his left lung.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Assassination_attempt

[virginia mountainman]

1. No..

It was enacted sometime in the mid, to early 1970's

[orleans]

3. are you sure?

never mind.
i found this:
WASHINGTON - Three decades ago, at the dawn of municipal self-government in the District of Columbia, the city's first elected mayor and council enacted one of the country's toughest gun-control measures, a ban on handgun ownership that opponents have long said violates the Second Amendment.

more stories like thisAll these years later, with the constitutionality of the ban now probably headed for a US Supreme Court review, a much-debated practical question remains unsettled: Has a law aimed at reducing the number of handguns in the District made city streets safer?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/11/18/effectiveness_of_dc_gun_ban_still_a_mystery/

[krispos42]

4. Yup, sure

I made a graph, so it must be true... :-)

[MonkeyFunk]

2. No