Posted on 04/18/2012 9:22:05 AM PDT by servo1969
When one of the District of Columbia’s top political leaders is willing to spend a day at the shooting range with a new gun owner, it’s a sign the capital city may be ready to put aside the past. For 30 years, Washington banned handguns, only to face a Supreme Court rebuke in 2008. Now the city is about to make it easier for law-abiding residents to legally own a firearm.
On Tuesday, the D.C. Council is expected to pass the Firearms Amendment Act of 2012 under expedited procedures so it can take effect this summer. The ordinance will do away with many of the expensive and time-consuming hurdles to registering a gun in the District that were put in place after the court’s decision.
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, who will vote for the bill, has made a 180 on gun rights. Last fall, when I began my series “Emily Gets Her Gun,” about the process of getting a legal handgun in the District, I asked Mr. Brown if he thought the city was adhering to the high court’s decision that the gun ban was unconstitutional.
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When asked point-blank whether he believed in the Second Amendment, he sidestepped again, saying, “I don’t support having more guns in the District of Columbia.”
But by spring, Mr. Brown had a different perspective. “I want to go shooting with you sometime,” he told me at city hall one day, to my surprise. “I’ve never shot a gun before.” There are no shooting ranges in the District, and it’s illegal for me to take my gun anywhere, even unloaded, in the city. So we decided to meet at a nearby shooting range in Lorton.
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Wow, if this guy can be converted, there is hope for the Country.
If the law-abiding citizens of DC acquire arms, this will create adverse working conditions for people pursuing non-traditional wealth-acquisition careers. We can’t have that.
Too bad the above is too long for a tag line. I have really enjoyed this series of articles.
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