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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Right, and watch Chicago Mayor Dailey - He’s going to resurrect some kind of regulation just in time for November


6 posted on 06/29/2010 8:29:12 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: shalom aleichem

They intend (supposedly) to mimic the DC regs that aren’t all that bad now.

To legally own a handgun in DC, ya gotta

(1) take a safety course (not a bad idea)
(2) spend an hour on the range with instructor (also a good idea)
(3) get fingerprinted (not the best, but tolerable. I did it in Ga)
(4) submit to a ballistics test so expended bullets can be traced back to your barrel (a bit instrusive, but again tolerable ... just buy a replacement barrel ;-p )
(5) stay registered.

DC has only had 800 people register legally since implementing those regs. (per CBS news)

So ... if Chicago requires all that, which isn’t much worse than passing a driver’s test and getting a license for a car, then so be it.

Plus the Illinois legislature (IIRC) put a law in place that makes it NOT a crime to use deadly force with an unregistered handgun in legitimate home- and self-defense.

Perhaps not as bad as it might seem.

The NRA.org and usacarry.org and georgiacarry.org have some good poop on this.

p.s. GA changed the law, and I am pretty sure you no longer have your prints displayed on your license when renewing.


15 posted on 06/29/2010 8:37:01 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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