Posted on 09/16/2008 8:52:54 AM PDT by epow
But it does give the Dimrats in pro-gun states an opportunity to claim that the Dimrat Congress did something really important to protect their gun rights. IMHO, that was all that bill was intended to do from the beginning.
Big surprise, Democrats are both frauds AND liars!! Who wudda thunk?
But it does give the Dimrats in pro-gun states an opportunity to claim that the Dimrat Congress did something really important to protect their gun rights. IMHO, that was all that bill was intended to do from the beginning.
Big surprise, Democrats are both frauds AND liars!! Who wudda thunk?
Methinks the NRA had a quiet chat with some legislators, saying "if you don't go where we want you to, SCOTUS will use YOU to throw out ALL bans and ALL registration". Do wish DC had been left to its own devices, we couldn't have asked for a better self-defeating opponent...
Sorry about the double post. FR is so slow nowadays that I often can’t tell if my posts go through on the first click or not. Is it FR’s website or just my puter, is anybody else having a similar problem?
I guess I missed something about the bill that passed. I was under the impression that without the Childers(?) amendment the bill was worthless. I read that all semiauto guns are still classified in the D.C. as full auto NFA guns and can’t be registered. What is different than before in the D.C.’s gun laws now?
It’s hard to follow what’s happening, hard to find what they’re actually voting on.
DC just announced that all semi-autos are legal, but mags are limited to 10 rounds.
The text of HR6691 I read, like most bills, is a long series of cut-and-paste directives, leaving one to guess what the final result will actually look like. Between the lines I gather NFA items remain illegal in DC.
I don’t know what this Childers amendment is about.
I suspect the legislators don’t exactly know what they’re voting on either.
Double posts happen. Don’t worry about it - especially when it’s happening to frequently to everyone else, like now.
I may be wrong on all of that, but it does appear that the bill is not entirely useless and some of the most egregious sections of the D.C. law will be gone if the Senate passes it. But the article suggests that the Senate may hold it over until next year, probably on the assumption that Obama will be elected and will veto it after it's passed both houses of Congress.
But if the D.C. council changes their gun laws as the article says they are doing the D.C won't be far out of line with the laws of most other big cities even if the House bill isn't passed by the Senate. Not that that's good enough, but definitely a big improvement,
We have our own problems here in GA. The Atlanta airport manager and the Atlanta mayor have ordered the airport cops to arrest any Georgia Firearms Licence holder found carrying a gun on airport property that isn't under federal law in spite of an existing GA law that nullifies all local gun laws. A lawsuit has been filed to block that order, but the anti-gun Atlanta judge has put off hearing the suit until next month, probably hoping the feds will override the state law as far as the airport is concerned before the suit is heard.
The Atlanta metro area politicos will never quit, no matter how many improvements the General Assembly makes in our gun laws the metro officials try to find ways to get around them.
I may be wrong on all of that, but it does appear that the bill is not entirely useless and some of the most egregious sections of the D.C. law will be gone if the Senate passes it. But the article suggests that the Senate may hold it over until next year, probably on the assumption that Obama will be elected and will veto it after it's passed both houses of Congress.
But if the D.C. council changes their gun laws as the article says they are doing the D.C won't be far out of line with the laws of most other big cities even if the House bill isn't passed by the Senate. Not that that's good enough, but definitely a big improvement,
We have our own problems here in GA. The Atlanta airport manager and the Atlanta mayor have ordered the airport cops to arrest any Georgia Firearms Licence holder found carrying a gun on airport property that isn't under federal law in spite of an existing GA law that nullifies all local gun laws. A lawsuit has been filed to block that order, but the anti-gun Atlanta judge has put off hearing the suit until next month, probably hoping the feds will override the state law as far as the airport is concerned before the suit is heard.
The Atlanta metro area politicos will never quit, no matter how many improvements the General Assembly makes in our gun laws the metro officials try to find ways to get around them.
No I didn't read the post, just the headlines.
&%*@&#, I did it AGAIN!! I must be doing something wrong on this end, I seem to be the only one making double posts.
Like I have been saying, it's very confusing, and a lot of it is above my pay grade. (=:
Therefore very few of the handguns in existence in the D.C after 1976 were registered in the proper time frame and were illegal to possess before Heller was decided, and those that were registered in time had to be disassembled and unloaded in the home or business,which of course made them practically useless for home defense.Apparently all that Heller did for D.C/ gun owners was to force the city to register whatever handguns the people now have whether or not they were owned before the 1976 registration law.
Again, I have to add a qualifier. I am not certain about any of this complicated mess, and if you are in the D.C. do not take anything I say here as factual so you won't get in trouble with the local yokels.
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