Posted on 07/21/2008 8:58:24 PM PDT by epow
(Editor's Note: Follow WTOP's Mark Segraves as he attempts to register for a gun license and buy a firearm. Scroll down to read the rest of his blog.)
Despite the fact that they're now legal to own, getting a handgun in the District is going to be impossible -- at least for a while. But this reporter is going to try.
At 7 a.m. Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department will open its doors at Headquarters and begin taking applications for permits. If you already own an illegal handgun, you're in luck. Because of the 90 day amnesty program, you can bring your gun (unloaded and wrapped up) to the police and apply for a permit. If, like most people, you don't have a gun, you can begin the permit process, but good luck getting a gun. Without a gun store, or someone to transfer the gun, it won't happen legally.
But I'm going to try.
It's important to note, I have no desire to own a gun. In fact, once I get the gun, I'll turn it over to police or sell it back to the gun store where I bought it. I simply want to walk through the entire process to see how it does - or doesn't - work.
So, join me on this journey. I'll update this blog on a daily, and sometimes hourly basis until I'm locked and un-loaded. Feel free to add your thoughts or experiences along the way.
To Buy A Gun
Friday, July 18 -- 2 p.m.:
Lt. Jon Shelton called me Thursday night to walk me through the process and clarify everything.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
The reason that the fascist D.C. regime is so terrified of guns is because they actually have an inkling of what happened at Lexington and Concord, and they are indeed scared sh*tless.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
If you need a gun fast and just can’t wait till the District stops violating your civil rights, go the corner of 13th ST and Good Hope RD SE. Look for a big, black guy named Marion. Can’t miss him. He sniffles a lot.
That, or check the sewers near any reported shootings.
How many people recognize that was a state slogan before it was uttered by John Wilkes Booth?
Someone shoot Mark Segraves. He’s a hippy, and he smells.
If I had my way they wouldn't be just scared sh##less, they would be riding out of town on a rail covered with hot tar and steaming chicken feathers before the sun comes up tomorrow. The residents of D.C must be remarkably tolerant people to have put up with this kind of totalitarian government for the last 35 years.
And where has Congress been all that time? Congress is supposed to be the top rung of the ladder in the D.C government isn't it? Our nation's Capitol city is a stinking cesspool of corruption, oppression, criminal-minded politicians, and Fascist administrative cops, and Congress doesn't have the guts to do anything about it for fear of being called racist.
I guess I used the URL of the 3rd page as the link to the article. Anyone reading the linked article should click back to the first page to get the whole story. Maybe if I hang around FR long enough I might just get this posting thingy down pat.
Or maybe not, I still can't program my DVD recorder to record what I want it to. Now I wish I had kept my 12 year old VCR, at least I knew how to program it and actually record what I programmed it for.
The D.C. government has the mentality of a third world dictatorship. The D.C. government and its charter should be abolished immediately.
There is, I think, a legal way to do it.
You have to have a residence in DC, and one not in DC.
Although how the heck you are supposed to legally take the gun to a DC police department, is beyond me.
OTOH, if Segrave is a left wing, anti-gun nutjob he may be hoping that Mr. Heller gets a gun registered and licensed and then accidentally kills some 5 year old kid and his helpless young mother with it. The antis would gladly wade through knee high innocent blood to get the D.C. gun ban restored.
Totally wrong. For the purposes of Federal law, you can only be resident in one place at a time. You can change your residence, and bring your legally purchased guns with you; but if you are really a resident of DC, then you absolutely cannot buy a handgun anywhere else.
-ccm
Whyever not?? I'm not aware of any Federal law that prevents citizens from buying a firearm out of their state of residence, and then returning home with it.
Looks like the best move would be out of the district. Virginia is definitely better, and even Maryland has gun shops.
I lived in D.C. in the mid 60s and remember buying a hand gun in Maryland from a gun shop. No problem back then but it may have been that it was because I was a member of the military, living on a military reservation within D.C.
I believe the laws were a little looser back in those days. I remember keeping it in my car because keeping a private gun in the barracks might have been frowned on.
The NRA had nothing to do with Heller other than filing an amicus brief. As a matter of fact, they were against the lawsuit when it was filed. The Heller lawsuit was financed by one of those evil Libertarians that "conservatives" on this site love to trash regularly. Unfortunately, I can't remember his name at the moment.
LOL! Nonetheless, I appreciate what this guy is trying to do. Basically, going through the difficult step-by-step process of registering a handgun in DC and then writing about exactly what these steps and roadblocks were.
DC is trying to make it so difficult to own an handgun that people will just give up in frustration. Furthermore, DC wants to have a list of gun-owners who failed the registration process that they can later arrest for unlawful possession of a handgun. Doing this will scare other gun owners into abandoning their efforts.
The Federal Government is eventually going to have to step in to enforce Heller on these morons. DC is blatantly ignoring a USSC ruling.
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