Pirro’s office ends probation for D.C. teen caught with AR-style rifle
Federal prosecutors are applying a new Justice Department policy that forbids felony charges for people carrying shotguns or rifles in D.C. to both prospective cases and past offenses, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the city’s top prosecutor, said last month that her office would stop enforcing a D.C. law that makes it a crime for people to carry long guns outside their homes or workplaces without permits. She said her office would keep prosecuting violent crimes involving rifles and shotguns, as well as people with prior felony convictions found to be possessing those guns.
The new policy shows how the Trump administration is relaxing the District’s strict gun controls — a longtime goal of Second Amendment advocates — just as federal agents and National Guard members fan out across the city in record numbers to quell what President Donald Trump calls a violent crime emergency. D.C. police and federal officers had confiscated 191 firearms during Trump’s surge from Aug. 7 to Aug. 26, according to data from the mayor’s office.
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