Posted on 07/16/2008 3:57:15 PM PDT by AreaMan
District Gun Registration Starts Tomorrow
D.C. police will start the gun registration process at 7 a.m. tomorrow, when it opens an office at police headquarters at 300 Indiana Ave. NW.
It is the start of the 180-day amnesty period in which residents may register handguns they have had illegally, or guns from other states.
An officer from the gun unit will meet the applicant at the door and take temporary possession of the gun to ensure safety at headquarters.
Officers will tag the gun and run ballistics tests before returning it to the owner. Paperwork indicating that registration is in process will be provided.
About 14 days later, after an FBI background check, the gun will be officially registered.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
ahh....the jokes never stop. Hi-larious
just revolvers right?
Taking a gun AWAY from an owner does NOT protect the INDIVIDUAL RIGHT to bear arms!
Running the ballistics test as well. Seems like that would normally require a warrant.
DC obviously doesn’t respect the law.
It is the start of the 180-day amnesty period in which residents may register handguns they have had illegally, or guns from other states.
Maybe it’s legal nit picking on my part, but, since the D.C. gun law was found unconstitutional, isn’t it improper for D.C. officials to say that they will give amnesty to someone who had a gun illegally? Since the law under which they were illegal was unconstitutional, there is no prior legal violation of gun laws for someone who had a gun.
Good heavens. In most places when you turn in your gun ... you get a phone card or certificate to Toys ‘R Us.
Don’t do it DCers. Wait until the class action law suit which will probably emerge is over.
Of course, the criminals will be lined up at 9 AM in the morning, right? GRRRRR.
True, amnesty from what? Since the idiotic gun-ban was unconstitutional what would a person need amnesty from?
Does this means that you can't register a non-functioning gun?
"This is akin to giving up your free speech rights while the city cops decide whether what you say won't be a danger to society."
The FBI check will include fingerprinting.
New Proposed D.C. Handgun Rules Unveiled
Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council, along with Attorney General Peter Nickles and Police Chief Cathy Lanier, announced the details of early legislation that will regulate the registration and storage of handguns in post-Heller D.C.
“We continue to take every step we can to minimize handgun violence in the District,” said Mayor Fenty. “We must prevent handguns from falling into the wrong hands or being misused, while allowing District residents to exercise their Second Amendment rights under the Heller ruling.”
Public Safety Committee Chairman Phil Mendelson released a statement saying that these proposed rules are just a first step.
“Moving forward, the Council’s open and public deliberations on this important issue will give the residents of the District of Columbia as well as subject matter experts an opportunity to weigh in and help shape our new policies," Mendelson said.
Here's what they're proposing:
More from the press release on Chief Lanier's proposed rules for how D.C. residents must go about registering handguns below the jump.
Registration procedures for a handgun purchased for self-defense in a District residence:1. A District resident who seeks to register a handgun must obtain an application form from MPD’s Firearms Registration Section and take it to a firearms dealer for assistance in completing it.
2. The applicant must submit photos, proof of residency and proof of good vision (such as a driver’s license or doctor’s letter), and pass a written firearms test.
3. If the applicant is successful on the test, s(he) must pay registration fees and submit to fingerprinting. MPD will file one set of fingerprints and submit the other to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for analysis and criminal background check.
4. MPD will notify the applicant whether all registration requirements are satisfied. At that point, the applicant returns to the Firearms Registration Section to complete the process and receive MPD’s seal on the application.
5. The applicant takes his or her completed application to a licensed firearm dealer to take delivery of the pistol. If the dealer is outside the District, the dealer transports the pistol to a licensed dealer in the District to complete the transaction.
6. The applicant takes the pistol to the Firearms Registration Section for ballistics testing. When testing is complete, the applicant may retrieve the pistol and take it home.
Registration procedures for a handgun legally registered in another jurisdiction, or a handgun possessed in the District but not registered:
1. Applicants bringing a firearm from another jurisdiction into the District must transport it immediately to the Firearms Registration Section, or notify the Section that they will do so within 48 hours.
2. MPD will allow the registration of previously possessed handguns other than those that qualify as “machine guns” under District law (that is, all automatics and most semiautomatic pistols) for the next six months. During that period, the Office of the Attorney General has established an Amnesty policy not to prosecute anyone for unregistered possession of such a handgun when it is brought to MPD for registration, although those who have committed other crimes with firearms of course remain subject to prosecution.
3. Regulations for registering handguns in either of these two scenarios are similar to those for newly-purchased handguns, but do not require the assistance of a licensed firearms dealer.Rules for transporting firearms legally within the District:
1. When the law allows transporting a firearm legally, the owner must transport it unloaded and securely wrapped in a package, with the package visible in plain view.
Provisions for becoming a licensed firearms dealer in the District:
1. Firearms dealers must first be licensed by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
2. Potential firearms dealers must be eligible to register guns in the District and eligible under federal law to sell them.
3. Firearms dealer licenses will be valid for one year.
4. Applications for dealer licenses will include a sworn or affirmed statement by the applicant, and may require photographs and fingerprints.
5. Firearms dealers must also comply with other District licensing and zoning requirements, such as having a Basic Business License and certificate of occupancy.
The District of Columbia has declared it's self a state?
Geez...why don't they just say the gun must be then be encased in lucite so as to "increase safety"
Haaaa Haaa! What f-ing fools these nitwits are. Register nothing and lock & load. The concerns are not as much with criminals, but with an out of control Government.
Haaaa Haaa! What f-ing fools these nitwits are. Register nothing and lock & load. The concerns are not as much with criminals, but with an out of control Government.
No thanks. DC can shove their rules as far as I’m concerned. I’d prefer to break the law than to submit to this joke they are trying to call registration. Do they really think that criminals are going to go through this ridiculous procedure? They haven’t learned a thing and they should be sued over and over again until they comply.
Instead of bloody violence there will be hillarity...I'm sure the crooks will comply. right?
You are very welcome.
Or why don’t we just keep the firearms at the police station ... and when someone enters your home, you go down and check them out like a library book, for defense use at home?
This HAS to be challenged. This is all about DC police/politicians not wanting to relinquish control after the SCOTUS decision. It stinks.
Just goes to show the citizens of the U.S. how really uptight the muncipal employees of the capital are about guns .... but ignore all the other things which can be used to inflict bodily harm!
The new proposed regulations will probably fail the test of reasonableness and should be the subject of a class-action law suit for invasion of privacy and compliance with the second amendment and the recent opinion of the Supreme Court.
Talk about overkill.
If you make the process so difficult and time-consuming, maybe, people will just ignore the process.
Criminals won’t get finger-printed anyway so they are really targeting law-abiding citizens and not the ones that are doing the vast majority of the shootings.
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