Posted on 07/14/2008 5:09:07 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
District residents will be able to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense but that right would be limited to the home and not outside it, city leaders said today, announcing new gun regulations in response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the city's handgun ban.
Gun owners will have to pass vision and written tests, provide a photo with their application to register a gun, and submit their weapon for ballistics testing. Guns will also still require trigger locks.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles announced the regulations alongside D.C. Council Chairman Vincent G. Gray (D), Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) and several other council members.
The regulations are an effort to maintain some gun control while complying with the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 ruling last month.
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Go for it!
Good. Judges are neither amused nor impressed by this sort of temper tantrum, and the reaction may lead to a set of legal precedents that goes further in protecting the RKBA than might otherwise be the case.
Guns must be submitted to the Firearms Registration Section for ballistic testing. Once complete, the applicant could take the gun home. Lanier said the entire process could take "weeks or months." Fenty said that guns used in the commission of a crime would not be subject to the amnesty provision.
The last two paragraphs make my head spin. As previously noted, there are virtually no dealers to have your new purchase sent to.
The currently most popular handguns, bottomfeeding autoloaders are still outlawed. Revolvers are ok, but only after their spent brass is entered into a ballistic database. Regardless of the fact that they don't mark their brass like an automatic pistol, and don't auto-eject the brass for the police to pick up after the fact.
The 'amnesty' period is probably to provide cover for all the Dem/Liberal gungrabbers who had guns all along, ala Carl Rowan (the late Carl Rowan, a prominent gun-control advocate and Washington Post columnist who shot and wounded a teenage trespasser on June 14, 1988.)
to the extent that it would cost goverment bodies money [ie taxpayers] it certainly would...however I believe the burden will still fall on the citizenry everywhere [its still guilty until proven innocent in most of yer list ] and the treasonous scum who willfully stampede on civil rights, personally, shall not be infringed...
real 'teeth' would prevent [short rope, tall tree] said scum from making the same decisions x2...
MY .02
mine would make decent bycicle/gate locks...would hinder a determined theft, but a fair cable lock nontheless...
How long will it take fer a bunch o' lawyers to clarify the definition of 'is' ???
Ive no doubt that the supremes will render a harshly worded statement...then wait for a reply...
this will go on for the foreseeable future...nationwide...
“Guns will also still require trigger locks.”
This was just declared unconstitutional. Liberals won’t obey the law if they don’t like it. But they’ll pass plenty of laws regulating every aspect of your behavior. They are petty totalitarians who should get lost.
Lawsuits are definitely the way to go. Also, name each council member individually.
The dems don’t want us to own guns. Gun owners are much too independent. The second amendment wasn’t just about self-defense and hunting. Thomas Jefferson said “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government”. We are the last line of defense for the Constitution. Thus when the government disarms us, we can no longer be threats to them. We can no longer resist. If the government comes for my gun, I will go down shooting.
36% of residents of Washington, D.C. are functionally illiterate. Ward 7 is 97% black, has over seventy thousand people and has an illiteracy rate of 50.4%. If this were any other issue but guns, the NAACP would be screaming foul.
They can have the Justice Dept sicced on them.
There's one basis for a lawsuit right there. The precedent is well established.
The District of Columbia welcomes firearms from other states, so long as they pass a simple transportation regulation. All firearms from outside DC must be compressed into a cube no larger than 1" square. Firearms within DC are permitted also, these must be compressed into a cube no larger than 1.25" square.
The "Fundamental" Constitutional right to an abortion (where is that in the Constitution, again?) can only be exercised if a woman registers with local government, passes a written and vision test, undergoes DNA testing on her private parts, must have the abortion in her home, and must wear a locked chastity belt.
Sounds like acceptable restrictions to me.
Another slapdown coming — but this one will be faster and by a lower court.
Jackboot won’t arrest another Jackboot. Forget it. As much as I would DEARLY love to see Mayor Thugfenty and his Thugcouncil frog-marched out in orange jumpsuits (or Pink, as Sheriff Arpaio likes to use), it just isn’t going to happen.
We’re on our own. The SCOTUS ruling is there, it’s LAW, it’s on paper. It will have to be brought before the court again, showing how someone has been harmed by the new round of ILLEGAL laws.
Fenty and his crew had this already drawn up, anticipating that they were going to lose. That strikes me as CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS.
Until it gets “expensive” for the other side, they’ll keep pushing the envelope.
For a civil rights abuse such as this, doesn’t the government pick up the tab like they do for the ACLU?
Trigger locks are NOT to be used on guns!!!!!
It is in the "Emanations and Penumbra" section, right underneath the "Freedom from Religion" clause.
If you can't find it, you must be looking in an old copy of the Constitution. It is in the "New and Improved" Constitution, which was adopted by the courts in the mid 1960s.
Ha ha ha. What's the punchline?
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