We plan to.
Posted on 09/10/2008 2:20:22 PM PDT by neverdem
B01
Congress plans to take up a bill this week that would repeal the District's gun-registration requirements and make it easier for residents to legally buy semiautomatic weapons, raising alarm among city officials that the measure would effectively end local gun control.
Chiefs of the D.C. police, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are expected to testify against the bill during a House hearing today. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) plans to introduce a substitute bill that would simply mandate that D.C.'s gun laws conform to a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down the city's 32-year-old ban on handguns.
But the tougher legislation is likely to prevail in the House, according to congressional sources and supporters and opponents of the bill. It has won the backing of 48 Democrats, many facing reelection in strongly pro-gun areas, and is expected to pick up broad support among Republicans.
The legislation has four main goals. It would repeal the D.C. ban on semiautomatic pistols and rifles; eliminate the city's gun-registration requirements; allow District residents to purchase guns in Virginia and Maryland; and abolish the regulation that guns kept at home be unloaded and either disassembled or fitted with trigger locks.
Opponents of the legislation said it could have even more far-reaching effects because of what they termed its vague provisions.
"You could drive a truck through this language," said Peter Nickles, acting D.C. attorney general. He noted that the bill would bar the D.C. government from passing any laws that would...
--snip--
"I'm very concerned that, under that legislation, the gun-rights advocates could challenge almost any restriction we've placed on gun ownership," Nickles said. Opponents said they feared that if the bill became law, people could carry loaded semiautomatic weapons or .50-caliber sniper rifles in the city...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Please repeal our assault rifle ban in California too!!!
And the down side??
Unlike DC that just threw the USSC decision under the bus and backed over it.
So let me get this straight. She wants to pass a law saying that they have to obey the law. Only a Democrat could be that screwed up.
Redundant. That's exactly what the original bill does.
Why don’t the Secret Service, the Capitol police, and the D.C. police set an example and give up THEIR guns first?
What part of “shall not be infringed” don’t these gun-grabbers understand?
.......Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) .....
Phony nothingness, pretending to be relevant. Affirmative action gone out of control
GMAFB. How stupid does anyone have to be to fall for this bovine excrement?
Opponents said they feared that if the bill became law, people could carry loaded ... .50-caliber sniper rifles in the city...
What part of NO do these a$$hats NOT understand? Who does enforce the decisions of the SC. Can the SC call out the marshals to arrest someone for willful obstruction of justice or anything like that?
We plan to.
...and they're going to do what with it, hold up a liquor store with a .50-caliber rifle? What a bunch of a$$monkeys...I've got a .50-caliber rifle in my gun safe and the thing is about 5-ft long and weighs about 65 lbs!
Stupid enough to believe that socialism can work
Now there's some legislation with some teeth! Legally requiring them to do what they're already legally required to do. This twit is probably the type person who thinks you can make criminals stop carrying by passing a law against it.
and they’re going to do what with it, hold up a liquor store with a .50-caliber rifle?
"You could drive a truck through this language,"
As long as it has a gunrack in the back window with a full compliment of wepons.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.