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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
******The requirement for a written test will exclude about 90% of the D.C. population from owning a firearm.******
Blatant discrimination. Similar to law that was upturned by SCOUSA many years ago which prevented people from voting because they could not read or write.
Since you DO live in DC you can make a ton of easy money by getting an '01 FFL' and becoming the only one willing to do Legal Transfers and req'd Background Checks within the District. Just guessing, but your upfront costs may run about $1K for BATF fees and DC permits but that would be recouped pdq at $30-$40 per transfer, or higher if you want since you'd be the sole source of legal handguns in DC (In IL $30 to $40 is the average transfer fee).
IIRC there are currently only four Class 01 FFLs in DC and none will do transfers. One FFL holder is an exec. at the Violence Policy Center (that's a laugher) who got it for "research". That is against BATF regulations and as such, the law. But they'll be busted like ... never.
I agree. Better still given the clearcut ruling in Heller re: locks, I wonder if there's a federal prosecutor with enough stones and jurisdiction to charge them with conspiracy to deny civil rights and denial of civil rights under color of law.
I don't play a lawyer on TV but maybe there's some strategy along these lines that could be applied. ?
In Georgia there is no test at all, including first time applicants; background check only. As a matter of fact, for my initial license, I simply provided my military ID and no check was run (the law has since changed.)
While I strongly support proficiency, it is an individual responsibility not one that should be required. For that matter, I still struggle with the concept of a license to exercise a fundamental, preexisting right.
That is an interesting idea.
...and Arkansas and W. Virginia. Any one of those would have made Gore the President (as well as High Priest of Gaiaism).
Good going, Fenty - keep the issue up front. You're doing a good job for Jesse, making sure that Obambi can't get elected and thereby displace Jesse as THE Black Civil Rights Leader.
I agree Angkor. I realized that when I read the article. You were right to point it out.
“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.”
Here’s the e-version of a very entertaining novella that will come out soon: http://www.esnips.com/doc/be8cad43-508b-4ee2-bdb4-2abd2d793114/ABSOLVED
Note: the author is also the author of the Window War: http://www.lizmichael.com/windowwa.htm
I couldn't agree more. Does anyone have to have a license (with fees, photos, fingerprints, a written test, etc.) in order to purchase a bible or to go to a house of worship? When such is the law of the land, then I won't struggle with the concept...of course, then it'll be time for a different kind of struggle.
We used to lynch tyrants in this country. Why did things have to change?
Good question. I don't know.
It's something to ponder.
And believe it or not but the BATF is pretty friendly to work with regarding licensing, as far as gubmint agencies go anyway.
I have a Class 03 C&R (Collector) and my local BATF office has been helpful when I had questions. (I got an odd request during my last renewal from the Atlanta office.)
On GA, it ticked me off that I had to pay for another background check on my last renewal.
Ditto.
??? Do tell.
Although a prosecutor will not generally receive any sort of sanction for bringing to trial a case which he obviously cannot win, prosecutors who make too much of a habit of such things may find themselves seeking employment elsewhere.
I would love to see cops who arrest people for actions they cannot reasonably believe to be prosecutable crimes face trial themselves, but I can't realistically see that happening until it is established that most gun rules are unenforceable. Proving that a cop didn't have good cause for arrest may not be hard, but proving that he could not have reasonably believed that he had good cause is apt to be much more difficult. Since prosecution of a cop would require meeting the latter standard, there's a ways to go before such prosecutions would be feasible.
Discrimination against the blind! Didn’t I read something about US money being retooled so that blind people could tell the difference between a $1000 bill and a $1 bill, for instance?
Let’s not ALL be blind to the end of the God-granted freedom envisioned by the FF.
Seriously... What’s the use of having a gun for self-protection if it has a trigger lock? The point is to be able to USE the gun quickly - not waste valuable, and perhaps life-altering, minutes trying to get the thing ready to fire when confronted with someone breaking into your home... Guaranteed the criminal breaking in if they are carrying will NOT have to fumble with a dang lock!
All the other registration rules seem ridiculous to me as well. Then again, I’m pretty clear cut on my opinion of the 2nd Amendment - it means what it says, and IMHO all of these laws violate it...
Break these seditious asshats at the wallet is my suggestion........doom on such !
You stay safe !
IIRC a governmental official's qualified immunity is breached when they knowingly abridge a Constitutional right which has been established as such within the Judicial Circuit in which they are located...
Cheers!
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