DC gun laws failed again at Washington Hilton
6:00am Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Washington, D.C., has spent more than a century proving the same lesson the gun control lobby refuses to learn: Criminals, assassins, and would-be killers do not stop because a city council, legislature, or Congress passed another weapons law. The latest reminder came at the Washington Hilton, where John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981.



