Posted on 07/14/2008 5:09:07 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
District residents will be able to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense but that right would be limited to the home and not outside it, city leaders said today, announcing new gun regulations in response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the city's handgun ban.
Gun owners will have to pass vision and written tests, provide a photo with their application to register a gun, and submit their weapon for ballistics testing. Guns will also still require trigger locks.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles announced the regulations alongside D.C. Council Chairman Vincent G. Gray (D), Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) and several other council members.
The regulations are an effort to maintain some gun control while complying with the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 ruling last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
While everyone's going on about the locks, I'd just like to point out the illegal seizure that's standing right there as they take evidence that may be used against you in a court of law. Picture, big deal - fingerprints are taken with driver's licenses and sometimes checks now, but here's something that has nothing to do with identifying /you/, but in taking your possession and making evidence out of it.
Amazing how they're more than willing to toss the 5th out the window when it comes to gun owners.
So is this proposal by DC.
Holy moly,
Go hunting, take your kids!
A plummeting crime rate due to gun freedom is one of their biggest threats to power.
VOTE THE MORONS OUT OF OFFICE OR RECALL THEM!!!
Is that with handguns, or all firearms?
If it’s all firearms, I’ll try to avoid them.
***The requirement for a written test will exclude about 90% of the D.C. population from owning a firearm.***
In some cases, that may be a good thing.
Sounds like the 1860's era DUmocrats to me, but until that litmus test is put to those same fools in government....
Getting too old to stay out in the harsh environment we loved back then.
That was a part of our lives that give us a lot of memories.
We hunted deer, (which we ate), bobcats. Trapped varmits, the coyotes $50 ea. for the land owner because of his goats. We had gloves and moccasins made from the deer hide. We no longer have the desire to kill anything.
I was going to make a coat from the coyotes hides—never did but I did make a nice teeth necklace. All this gave us a new outlook on animals and I have no regrets. Now I’ll take a motel over sleeping in a tent for 2 weeks.
Whoa. Did these guys just over rule the SC?
AbsoFReekinLutely! Trigger lock this!
It's just more common sense gun control Squantos. They can't make you a felon for owning one, so they'll make you a felon for not making it useless against those who'd rape your daughter, ransack your abode and slay you before your family. Get with the stinkin program, DC residents. We have spoken!
Not there yet.
Appreciate the response.
>>I thought that the “Trigger Locks” requirement was also struck down. Or am I confused...again.
You’re not confused. #3 in the “Held:” portion of the decision...
“3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment.”
I seem to remember there being a Federal law allocating jail time for politicians and bureaucrats that make rules which violate the B.O.R. Wish I could remember the citation...
Why not drop the locks off at the local PD or Sheriffs office so the officers can lock there weapons down at night. If they already do so then they can give them out a gifts to passerbys.
What? The only thing my County Sheriff would do with them is buy anti-gun propaganda by using them as props for a faux 'Free Gun Lock Giveaway' media BS session...
If the cops hand them out to criminals, I have no problem with that.
If Obama becomes POTUS he will have to MOST LIKELY replace Stevens and Ginsburg........both voted against....so it will NOT likely change the 5-4 decision.
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