Abstract
This article explores the political significance and uses of "Project Exile," which has targeted gun violence in Richmond by funneling all gun arrests to federal court. After recounting how the program's focus on gun-carrying criminals made it useful, first as a sword for Republican foes of new firearms regulation, and then as a shield for Clinton Administration efforts to expand federal enforcement efforts, the article assesses the institutional implications of making Exile into a template for a nationwide anti-violence strategy, as President George W. Bush now proposes. It concludes that although such a strategy principally reflect its sponsors' positions on gun control, it also seriously challenges the very idea of a distinct federal enforcement policy in the areas where federal, state and local authority most overlap.
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43 Ariz. L. Rev. 369 (2001)
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