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Fenty Just Says "Semi-automatic handguns will still be illegal" in DC!
Fox News Channel ^ | 6/26/08 | Fox News Channel

Posted on 06/26/2008 9:14:08 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe

[Link is to FNC main site, not to individual video]

Mayor Fenty just said, live on Fox News Channel, that although DC citizens can keep guns in their homes and they will start allowing people to register/license, that "semi-automatic handguns will still be illegal" in DC!

Doesn't that directly contravene this morning's ruling? Is he spitting in the face of SCOTUS already??

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; banlist; democrats; fenty; heller; rkba; secondamendment; shallnotbeinfringed
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Lets do the same with the first amendment too. Single speeches are protected but not multiple political speeches.


21 posted on 06/26/2008 9:20:24 AM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: NewJerseyJoe

He probably doesn’t even know what the hell a semi automatic weapon is, and doesn’t even know what in the hell SCOTUS ruled today.


22 posted on 06/26/2008 9:20:24 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Yep. The Man’s rules don’t apply in Chocolate City North. Remember, this is a city that still thinks Marion Barry is the best mayor they ever had.

}:-)4


23 posted on 06/26/2008 9:20:48 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
I’m sure he has not a clue what “semi-automatic” means.

He probably thinks you don't have to use the clutch or move the gear lever when shooting.

24 posted on 06/26/2008 9:20:53 AM PDT by heywoodubuzzoff (Electile Dysfuntion -- Can not get excited about any of the candidates.)
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To: xzins

Thompson Contender single shot


25 posted on 06/26/2008 9:20:57 AM PDT by Southern_Republican
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To: saganite

Yes, but now the lower courts will have to follow the great Justice Scalia.
It will not be going back to the Supreme Court.

And I now and forevermore can only write this justice’s name with the word great in front of it.

His majority opinion will be worthy of savoring. Every word of its sixty pages!


26 posted on 06/26/2008 9:21:18 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I see more court cases.


27 posted on 06/26/2008 9:22:03 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

He’s a moron. He doesn’t know the difference between automatic and semi auto and my guess is he’s never sent a round down range in his life.

Firearms training should be a requirement for holding public office.


28 posted on 06/26/2008 9:22:23 AM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Here is the Automatic Revolver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley-Fosbery_Automatic_Revolver


29 posted on 06/26/2008 9:23:07 AM PDT by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: Redleg Duke

The fool doesn’t even know what a “semi-automatic” weapon is. If you pull the trigger, the gun fires one round. If you pull the trigger again, the gun fires again. Under this definition, a revolver is “semi-automatic” and therefor, in HIS eyes, a banned weapon. Gonna have to eat a lot of crow to live this one down. Somebody needs to get rid of this fool. Yes, I know that “semi-automatic” refers to the operation of the weapon not requiring operator action to chamber a round in prep for the next firing. So?


30 posted on 06/26/2008 9:23:17 AM PDT by junkman_106 (Once is chance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action ---007/Ian Fleming)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
He'd have a hard time squaring that prohibition with:
We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
Just about any handgun is semi-automatic, revolvers included, when you define semi-automatic as removing the need to physically operate a bolt-type mechanism between trigger pulls.
31 posted on 06/26/2008 9:23:17 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
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To: MarineBrat

That can be operated by fanning. Definitely scary and probably more dangerous to the shooter than to anybody else.


32 posted on 06/26/2008 9:23:43 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Sounds like Fenty needs to go to jail for breaking the law.


33 posted on 06/26/2008 9:24:43 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Oh boy, is this gonna be a ride. There are plenty of laws to challenge.

Sorry, Mayor - semi-auto handguns are commonly held arms.

Looks like the control freaks are losing what’s left of their tiny little minds.


34 posted on 06/26/2008 9:24:43 AM PDT by dbwz
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To: xzins

Revolvers are still made in pretty good numbers.


35 posted on 06/26/2008 9:24:50 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: andy58-in-nh

I think you hit the nail on the head...


36 posted on 06/26/2008 9:25:41 AM PDT by oldoverholt
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To: heywoodubuzzoff
He probably thinks you don't have to use the clutch or move the gear lever when shooting.

LOL. The again, being a typical elitist liberal, he probably owns a bicycle and has a chauffeured limo.

I'm quite certain that he intends to ban automatic weapons (machine pistols, for example). On the other hand, he might really be as stupid as he sounds - we shall see.

37 posted on 06/26/2008 9:26:16 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace is Not The Question.)
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To: RexBeach

The issue will be the city’s definition of “semi-automatic.” They’ll not care a bit about anyone else’s.


38 posted on 06/26/2008 9:26:21 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: Earthdweller
More like, for being stupid.
I honestly think he's clueless to what the ruling said today, and what constitutes a semi-automatic weapon.
39 posted on 06/26/2008 9:26:43 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: navyguy
He’s a moron. He doesn’t know the difference between automatic and semi auto and my guess is he’s never sent a round down range in his life.

Kinda reminds me of the executive at the corporation I worked at a few jobs back, who in response to an issue of someone downloading porn, emailed the entire company (5000+, international), that outside teams would be hired to search every single computer in person to remove all .jpgs, .bmps, and every other image file. Of course no such teams ever arrived, but a retraction email was not sent either. What I would have given to be a fly on the wall when his ignorance was explained to him.

40 posted on 06/26/2008 9:26:56 AM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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