Washington DC's New Gun Registration Rules Pamphlet

Wash DC Metro Police Department ^ | June 28, 2008 | Government of the District of Columbia

[Towed_Jumper]

DC Has now issued revised firearms registration rules and proceedures following the DC vs. Heller SCOTUS decision

[Towed_Jumper]

This pdf document explains DC's revised firearms registration rules given the D.C. vs. Heller ruling by SCOTUS. Take note that residents will now be allowed to register revolvers - but not "semi-automatic pistol".

http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/lib/mpdc/info/pdf/registering_firearm_dc.pdf

DC's "government" has been and remains despicable.

[xDGx]

General Lanier is a nitwit.

[BenLurkin]

How is it registration of any firearms is permissible undre the Constitution?

[goldstategop]

What they're doing is illegal and they don't care. Time to haul them back into court.

"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

[Spktyr]

Apparently they didn’t understand the part of the SCOTUS decision that says “no banning a class of arm that is in common use”.

This isn’t going to go over well with SCOTUS OR the Circuit Court.

[bill1952]

Apparently, whatever taxpayers live there do not mind paying millions for the next round in court.

Personally, I look forward to it.

[SoldierDad]

Time to put some more popcorn on.

[Spktyr]

Also... isn’t Heller’s “issue” weapon a “semi-auto pistol”??

[DannyTN]

Aren’t most pistols semi-automatic?

[Erik Latranyi]

A shotgun cannot have a barrel of less than 20 inches.......

[kbennkc]

Do we need more written tests as conditions precedent to the exercise of Constitutional rights ? That sounds familiar , and BTW racist .

[kingu]

It flies in the face of the court decision, and any person should simply ignore the requirements that it be a revolver. If they wish to confiscate it, they’ll need a court order, which no sane judge will issue unless they want their name splashed across the national papers as the moron who got slapped down by the court.

[LukeL]

Also unfair to the poor $48.00 to register one gun? Then $13.00 for each additional one. Also you can't even have the gun outside your home? So do I have to lock the gun or break it down to go to a shooting range or to the gunsmith?

[wastedyears]

How much rope can be had in DC?

[xDGx]

rope is banned in DC.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Aren’t most pistols semi-automatic?

All of them are.

At least in the meantime, DC residents can get a revolver.

[LukeL]

The courts said a poll tax and written test were unconstitutional as it restricted a guaranteed right. The same is true for gun ownership.

[USS Alaska]

Revolvers are semi-automatic, it's just that they aren't gas operated.

I saw a demo by a professional marksman {I think on the History Channel} and he hit six targets with a revolver in less than 4 seconds.

You might shoot a little faster with a gas operated semi, but I'd like to see the accuracy rate.

[CapnJack]

After reading that piece of BS, one has to ask them selves ... “What was the sense of bring up the Heller case in the first place!”

Back to court once again.

[Towed_Jumper]

It would be interesting if these new firearms rules limiting registrations to revolvers but not allowing semi-auto handguns, had the unintended consequence of spurring the gun manufactures to make 15-round capacity revolvers...chuckle...a bet Mayor Fenty would have a heart attack.