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District Leaders Announce New Handgun Regulations
The Washington Post ^ | July 14, 2008 | Robert E. Pierre and Marcia Davis

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; dc; fenty; guns; handguns; heller; shallnotbeinfringed
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To: Bubba_Leroy
and submit their weapon for ballistics testing.

While everyone's going on about the locks, I'd just like to point out the illegal seizure that's standing right there as they take evidence that may be used against you in a court of law. Picture, big deal - fingerprints are taken with driver's licenses and sometimes checks now, but here's something that has nothing to do with identifying /you/, but in taking your possession and making evidence out of it.

Amazing how they're more than willing to toss the 5th out the window when it comes to gun owners.

81 posted on 07/14/2008 6:14:41 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: Nachoman

So is this proposal by DC.


82 posted on 07/14/2008 6:16:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Holy moly,

Go hunting, take your kids!


83 posted on 07/14/2008 6:17:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Why shouldn't they? They have endless tax dollars with which to resist the law, for years. No skin off their arses.

A plummeting crime rate due to gun freedom is one of their biggest threats to power.

84 posted on 07/14/2008 6:26:11 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: Bubba_Leroy

VOTE THE MORONS OUT OF OFFICE OR RECALL THEM!!!


85 posted on 07/14/2008 6:28:33 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (VOT)
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To: Puppage

Is that with handguns, or all firearms?

If it’s all firearms, I’ll try to avoid them.


86 posted on 07/14/2008 6:32:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Enterprise

***The requirement for a written test will exclude about 90% of the D.C. population from owning a firearm.***

In some cases, that may be a good thing.


87 posted on 07/14/2008 6:33:17 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Lawsuit should be forthcoming with VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS as the charge against the fools.


88 posted on 07/14/2008 6:34:29 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Enterprise
"The requirement for a written test will exclude about 90% of the D.C. population from owning a firearm."

Sounds like the 1860's era DUmocrats to me, but until that litmus test is put to those same fools in government....


89 posted on 07/14/2008 6:39:26 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Getting too old to stay out in the harsh environment we loved back then.
That was a part of our lives that give us a lot of memories.

We hunted deer, (which we ate), bobcats. Trapped varmits, the coyotes $50 ea. for the land owner because of his goats. We had gloves and moccasins made from the deer hide. We no longer have the desire to kill anything.

I was going to make a coat from the coyotes hides—never did but I did make a nice teeth necklace. All this gave us a new outlook on animals and I have no regrets. Now I’ll take a motel over sleeping in a tent for 2 weeks.


90 posted on 07/14/2008 6:43:07 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Whoa. Did these guys just over rule the SC?


91 posted on 07/14/2008 6:48:52 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Squantos
Make this trash wade through the same sh*tswamp they force others too cope with every day of our lives.

AbsoFReekinLutely! Trigger lock this!

It's just more common sense gun control Squantos. They can't make you a felon for owning one, so they'll make you a felon for not making it useless against those who'd rape your daughter, ransack your abode and slay you before your family. Get with the stinkin program, DC residents. We have spoken!


Gun Control isn't about GUNS

no nonsense support of the right to keep and bear arms

It's about CONTROL


92 posted on 07/14/2008 6:54:36 PM PDT by glock rocks (Baraq Hussein Obama ~ black, white, and red all over.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Not there yet.

Appreciate the response.


93 posted on 07/14/2008 6:54:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Blackhawk

>>I thought that the “Trigger Locks” requirement was also struck down. Or am I confused...again.

You’re not confused. #3 in the “Held:” portion of the decision...

“3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment.”

I seem to remember there being a Federal law allocating jail time for politicians and bureaucrats that make rules which violate the B.O.R. Wish I could remember the citation...


95 posted on 07/14/2008 7:05:22 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ./base)
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To: kAcknor

Why not drop the locks off at the local PD or Sheriffs office so the officers can lock there weapons down at night. If they already do so then they can give them out a gifts to passerbys.


96 posted on 07/14/2008 7:09:12 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
If I lived in DC (and I wouldn't), I would just flat ignore the trigger lock regulation at this point.
97 posted on 07/14/2008 7:15:16 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: B4Ranch
Why not drop the locks off at the local PD or Sheriffs office so the officers can lock there weapons down at night.

What? The only thing my County Sheriff would do with them is buy anti-gun propaganda by using them as props for a faux 'Free Gun Lock Giveaway' media BS session...

98 posted on 07/14/2008 7:19:17 PM PDT by kAcknor ("A pistol! Are you expecting trouble sir?" "No ma'am, were I expecting trouble I'd have a rifle.")
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To: kAcknor

If the cops hand them out to criminals, I have no problem with that.


99 posted on 07/14/2008 7:21:21 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

If Obama becomes POTUS he will have to MOST LIKELY replace Stevens and Ginsburg........both voted against....so it will NOT likely change the 5-4 decision.


100 posted on 07/14/2008 7:25:29 PM PDT by PISANO
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