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Time for Congress to Stop D.C.’s Anti-Gun Shenanigans
townhall.com ^ | 5/20/2015 | Bob Barr

Posted on 05/20/2015 5:07:49 AM PDT by rktman

Since the landmark 2008 Heller v. District of Columbia case, which Second-Amendment lawyer Alan Gura argued before the Supreme Court, anti-gun officials in the nation’s capital have spent every waking hour trying to avoid doing what the high Court ordered be done: allow District residents to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; fifedom; guncontrol; secondamendment
Hmmm. Maybe we missed something somewhere along the way and the folks who live in d.c. aren't really citizens after all.
1 posted on 05/20/2015 5:07:49 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

By the time a DC resident has a “good reason/proper reason” to get a permit, he’s already dead.


2 posted on 05/20/2015 5:48:51 AM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: rktman

Criminals carry with impunity and don’t jump thru many hoops or spend much time getting their weaponry.


3 posted on 05/20/2015 6:00:56 AM PDT by umgud (I never capitalize; muslim, islam or allah)
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Better yet, repeal all the ‘shenanigans’ Congress has passed since 1934 while they are at it.


4 posted on 05/20/2015 6:01:33 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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...and include the NFA of ‘34 with them.


5 posted on 05/20/2015 6:02:09 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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New jersey’s too. We’ve had the “prove a need” requirement to get a carry permit, practically forever.

But then ANY permit or registration requirement is an infringement.


6 posted on 05/20/2015 7:13:16 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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