Red tape and bureaucracy is just a reminder that what a government gives, it can take away, with even greater ease.
Gun laws only empower politicians and criminals, but I repeat myself.
How can people live under such repressive governments?
Too bad you don’t live in Virginia.
I wonder how the media would treat the RKBA, if in order to exercise their first amendment rights, they had to jump through these exact same loops to publish an article.
Of course armed criminals, drug dealers and street thugs who frequent the streets of DC all have complied with this law so its residents are now safe from gun crime. That law abiding citizens wanting to exercise their Constitutional RIGHT to have a firearm have to go through this ludicrous process is just plain stupid. Just how does this process reduce gun crime in Washington DC as the criminal element certainly doesn’t comply with these laws ?
People need to learn to “vote with their feet”. Emily, just move to Georgia ... we’ll treat you right.
I had a SIG p229 in .40 S&W, and it was the dagnabbinest jammin’ gun I ever had.
If I used the creem of the preem ammo, it didn’t jam. But with the good old middlin’ Winchester, Remington and Federal American Eagle ammo, at least one round per magazine would be a hanger.
Anybody else ever have that trouble? Obviously I bought the SIG because from everything I’d read or experimented with, it was supposed to be “as good as it gets”.
It was probably a lemon, which is why I am sour on the gun, and the brand for that matter.
I traded it straight across for a Springfield 1911 which I am very proud of — and nary a jam with that affordable ammo.
I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
screw ‘em, wait until you have to use it and then, when charged, sue them again for unconstitutional restrictions on access.
This list of crap is unacceptable obstruction and infringement of the 2nd Ammendment.
“...and take the gun to the police for a ballistics test.”
Not often you see 2 Constitutional Amendments (4th & 5th) violated in order to violate another Constitutional Amendment (2nd).
And I thought MA was bad.
And this is why I love living in Alabama.
Walk in the store, buy the gun, instant check, leave with the gun.
Fill out the CCW form, turn it in with my $20 walk out with my card.
The people involved with subverting the US Supreme Court’s decision in the matter of handguns for DC residents and implementing punitive draconian additive requirements should ALL be summarily indicted and imprisoned in ASS BANGING JAIL for a period not to exceed the time it takes to go from a “tweet fart” to a “flatulant hippo expulsion”.....So say we all....
1st, I had to go to a gun shop and purchase a gun that I was not even allowed to touch. All I got was a purchase receipt to attach to my permit application.
2nd, Fill out an application, plus have 4 character questionnaires filled out by people that have known me at least 4 years, and live in the same county. These had to be notarized, and asked some pretty intrusive questions of my references, such as THEIR social security number, address and phone where THEY work...
3rd, wait about 5 weeks for an appointment to hand in the application, and be finger printed.
4th, Wait 6 months and 9 days for my application to be approved.
5th, Get my permit and voucher and return to the gun shop to finally get the gun that I bought 8 months ago.
Even now, it takes about a month to add a gun to my permit.
At what point will the Supreme Court step in again with the obvious ruling that this woman’s God-given and constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms has been infringed?
Wow,
In contrast, in Texas for the same gun- Go to a gun show, browse around for a while. Find what you want. Fill out a little paperwork and the dealer calls in for a quick background check. Give the dealer some money. Walk out with your gun.
It does not sound like you live in the United States. We have a Constitution here that has this amendment:
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.