Posted on 11/25/2013 3:18:00 PM PST by Texas Fossil
The 1,800 or so criminals who have killed, robbed or assaulted innocent people with guns in the District of Columbia so far this year were hauled into the police station to be fingerprinted, photographed and to undergo a criminal-background check.
Now, legal gun owners who have committed no crime are getting the exact same treatment. That is neither constitutional, nor fair.
The latest gun-control scheme that starts on Jan. 1 will force every legal firearm owner in the nation’s capital to go in person to police headquarters to renew their registration certificates.
The Metropolitan Police Department filed proposed rules last week to enact this absurd law, and citizens have until Dec. 15 to comment on the regulations.
To avoid becoming a felon, anyone with a gun registered before 2011 will have to go to police headquarters to be fingerprinted, photographed, provide proof of address, pay a fee and confirm they may still legally possess the firearm. The Firearms Registration Section will then create a new registration certificate — now in the form of an ID card — for each gun.
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I can see it now. As I unfolded my wallet containing my 30 ID cards for my legally registered weapons, the accordion of plastic holders unfurled, creating a ‘furtive move’ that justified the brave men in blue opening fire.
I know what our forefathers would be doing by now.
I know what they wouldn’t be doing, which would be having any respect for the modern American political class or their criminally inspired laws.
I don’t have a permit. Don’t see the need where I live.
agree
Will the criminals be lining up to do this?
[Yeah, I know, going for the cheap laugh….. but considering the state of things today..]
Some thieves rob with a gun or knife, the Pro’s do so with a pen, many of them are Politicians & Lawyers. Theft by law is their mode of operation.
Were you also fingerprinted so you could own your gun? No.
Clearly Unconstitutional.
I’m far less afraid of a machine gun in the hands of a madman than I am of a database in the hands of a contemporary American politician or bureaucrat. At some point, one has to come to grips with the fact that they have more loathing and contempt for us than we do for them...and act accordingly.
“Why stop there. Why not a number tattooed on the forearm? “
Or the hand. Or the forehead......How about 666?
Commies.
agree
“I know what our forefathers would be doing by now”
Yep. You got that right.....true dat.
Hey but at least they’d get home safe...
I’m a child of the 50’s and 60’s. I remember two slogans that have never left me.
1. First Registration, then Confiscation.
2. The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
Fingerprinted , FBI background checked, and CT state police background checked in CT for my long gun certificate that I just received today (coincidence) after applying in person, in Middletown CT early Sept. (-$116 in 4 checks, too)
Clearly Unconstitutional.
If you have to pay for your "rights" they are no longer rights, but have become privileges permitted by the govt. It's the next step BEYOND infringement so the left can argue that its no (no longer) infringement.
“Why would any sane person still live in DC…. And I just answered my own question.”
Since school desegregation, it’s become another “Chocolate City.”
This is one of my favorite topics.
Congress has the power - and the responsibility - to legislate for DC “in all cases whatsoever”.
Congress should immediately enact two laws: 1) Make all CCW permits from all States valid in the District, and 2) Make a clear, transparent, and simple process for legal residents of DC to obtain CCW permits.
Me too. That makes it all OK, right? Come on.
The District of Corruption isn’t a state. It’s a **ithole. I don’t think the Constitution is valid there.
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