In Re Prosecution of Hall

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• in holding that offenses of possession of unregistered firearm (UF) and unlawful possession of ammunition (UA) are under prosecutorial authority of District of Columbia, court relies on “the District’s long history of firearms regulation”
• “Consistent with the treatment of firearms regulations as regulatory rather than penal, the UF and UA provisions are codified in Title 7 of the D.C.[ ]Code, which relates to Human Health Care and Safety, rather than in the titles related to criminal law or procedure.”

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