Three-Inch Grip (verbal regulatory metric)

A three-inch grip dimension referenced in legislative debate as a critical measurement.

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Purpose

To specify the physical dimension of a handgun's grip for legal and regulatory clarity; in the scene it operates as a metric to determine whether particular firearms would fall under the proposed legislation.

Significance

Acts as a rhetorical fulcrum that exposes the bill's narrow technicality, intensifies Congressman Richardson's moral rebuke, and crystallizes Leo's crisis over political compromise—turning a sterile measurement into an emblem of human consequence.

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When this object appears and how it's used

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S1E4 · Five Votes Down

The Cost of Compromise at the Lincoln Memorial

The Three-Inch Grip is named by Richardson as a specific technical cutoff that was altered; it stands for the minute, technical compromises that, cumulatively, render the bill ineffective in marginalized communities.

Before: Part of the technical conversation around what the bill would regulate; not physical.

After: Remains a verbal example used to justify refusal to support the legislation.

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