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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: PeteB570

The Mateba Autorevolver.

41 posted on 06/26/2008 9:27:14 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Send in the National Guard. If we can use it to protect civil rights, we can use it to protect Constitutional Rights. Way past time for a smackdown of these socialist, America-hating, Constitution-hating b***ards anyway.


42 posted on 06/26/2008 9:27:18 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: xzins
I think “semi-automatic” is a description of every pistol in existence.

Pretty much true.

43 posted on 06/26/2008 9:27:56 AM PDT by McGruff (This is not the [insert name here] I knew.)
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To: NonValueAdded
Exactly. Very few weapons in this country have actually been outlawed. I wonder what Thug Fenty heard from his lawyers. Semi automatics, which include virtually every handgun and pistol in existence, are legal under federal and state laws. Boy, is the man stupid.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

44 posted on 06/26/2008 9:28:28 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: andy58-in-nh
I’m sure he has not a clue what “semi-automatic” means.

Yes, just like all clueless libs believe that "Assault Rifles" are all fully automatic.

Most of these far-left moonbats--having never lowered their dignity by deigning to have served in the military /s--have probably never even held a weapon of any kind in their lilly, socialist, hands and would not know a semi-automatic from a muzzle loader.

45 posted on 06/26/2008 9:31:01 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: nina0113

As a software engineer I can relate!


46 posted on 06/26/2008 9:32:09 AM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Page 49 of Scalia's majority opinion:

The Constitution secures the right of the people to keep and bear arms. No doubt, a citizen who keeps a gun or pistol under judicious precautions, practices in safe places the use of it, and in due time teaches his sons to do the same, exercises his individual right.

Now, my semi-automatic handguns (two 9mm's and two .45 cal.'s) are pistols, aren't they?

47 posted on 06/26/2008 9:32:14 AM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Let Mayor Fenty know your thoughts on the matter.
http://app.dc.gov/apps/about.asp?page=atd&type=dsf&referrer=[$DSF_SERVER_NAME$]&agency_id=1075


48 posted on 06/26/2008 9:33:17 AM PDT by octobersky
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To: PackerBoy

The majority opinion consistently discusses handguns, and does not specify revolvers, pistols or anything else. I think a semi-automatic handgun is still a “handgun”, isn’t it?


49 posted on 06/26/2008 9:35:38 AM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: MarineBrat

A Thompson Center.


50 posted on 06/26/2008 9:36:15 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Does this qualify as semi-auto?

Link

51 posted on 06/26/2008 9:36:58 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding. -DC Vs Heller. 07-290. 2008.
52 posted on 06/26/2008 9:37:14 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Now the game will be what it has been all along anyhow, kill the RIGHT to bear arms and undermine the spirit of the Second Amendment with a thousand small bureaucratic paper cuts.

Registration, complex forms, fees, taxes, bogus discriminators, really tight inspections and reviews where any “t” that isn't crossed will get the paperwork kicked back, extra special restrictions when transporting the weapons storing them etc. etc etc. You get the picture.

53 posted on 06/26/2008 9:38:51 AM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
(C) All of the above...

BTW & FYI, there are a number of fine DAO (Double Action Only) pistols available. They act exactly like a DAO revolver (the trigger must be "pulled through" to cock and fire the piece -- for every shot).

54 posted on 06/26/2008 9:40:01 AM PDT by TXnMA
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To: seeker_two

“...of course, his predecessor thought cocaine and hookers were legal, too....”

Nice!


55 posted on 06/26/2008 9:41:31 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: NewJerseyJoe

F**k you Fenty! The SCOTUS has spoken and you are now political worm food.


56 posted on 06/26/2008 9:46:23 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: NonValueAdded
"....when you define...."

You have just defined the problem. When you, any other laymen and/or politician attempts to define esoteric technical matters of which they have insufficient knowledge, all sorts of abominations result.

A semi-automatic (Self-Loading) firearm is well defined in relavent literature (and revolvers are not included in that description, notwithstanding the unique, century old automatic-revolver discussed on this thread).

Our military coined the description "Assault Rifle" a half century ago. It has a specific size, function and ammunition, very unlike the bastardization concocted by various politicians that also includes handguns, shotguns and whatever else looks bad.

Your statement that "Just about any handgun is semi-automatic..." is absurd and displays a serious lack of firearm knowledge.

57 posted on 06/26/2008 9:48:35 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Doesn't that directly contravene this morning's ruling? Is he spitting in the face of SCOTUS already??

Yes, he just peed on the Supreme Court.

58 posted on 06/26/2008 9:50:38 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Beware the fury of the man that cannot find hope or justice.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Fenty is not heading down the right road here. The USSC almost never finds anyone in contempt, but he’s angling to get himself in the Federal clink for a decade or so while the black robes get around to hearing his contempt case.


59 posted on 06/26/2008 9:51:59 AM PDT by PeterFinn (I guess I'll vote for McCain.)
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To: MarineBrat
One of the leaps in technology to come out of the Iraq war is bionic limb replacements. Someone with a bionic finger can theoretically pull the trigger 30 times in half a second. I wonder if the ATF will get into the regulation of bionic finger performance. I'm sure they will under an Obama administration.
60 posted on 06/26/2008 9:53:46 AM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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