Posted on 09/27/2014 10:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in America in which gun owners have to re-register their guns with the government every three years. The mandate was enforced at the beginning of this year. Now, the Metropolitan Police Department has been sending notices to residents with registered firearms to come down to their headquarters to be fingerprinted. The only problem is, most people are resisting the demand.
Fox 5’s Emily Miller, a proud gun owner herself, led an investigation into why these law-abiding gun owners were being dragged back to the police station. They were already fingerprinted when they first registered their guns, so why do they have to do it again? The answer is infuriating:
“According to City Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, the police department lost the fingerprints.”
As Miller points out, the fingerprinting is done electronically, so how can they be lost?
Crickets.
Because of the police department’s own incompetence, gun owners have to fork over another $35 for the fingerprinting fee, as well as $13 for the gun registration fee – per gun. Not to mention the gas they have to pay to make another trip to police headquarters – for no reason.
Responsible gun owner Lenny Hardell, who has been collecting firearms for years, says the new mandate will end up costing him hundreds of dollars every three years:
I think it's going to be turned around as a cash cow,” said Harrell. “You're getting $13 a pop and got to get fingerprinted -- and I don't know how much going to the D.C. budget."
The penalty for refusing to re-register a gun after 90 days could cost a gun owner up to $1,000 or even one year in jail.
That hasn’t seemed to rattle DC residents, however. Of the 30,000 legally registered guns in the district, only 1,356 guns have been renewed.
So, why is DC so GUNg-ho over re-registration? Well, the price tag could be a factor. The government has profited over $17,000 over gun renewals, Miller reports.
Parting question from Harrell:
“I haven’t gotten into trouble, I have guns. Why should I be coming down here?”
Watch Miller’s whole investigation here:
Gun owners all over the US need to resist the escalation in gun control measures, and we need to get together on it, to show strength, and we need to characterize and label it as “civil disobedience”, and watch the media try to spin that, when they love it when it comes from their pet interest groups.
Gun owners all over the US need to resist the escalation in gun control measures, and we need to get together on it, to show strength, and we need to characterize and label it as “civil disobedience”, and watch the media try to spin that, when they love it when it comes from their pet interest groups.
I can’t think of a single city south of the Mason-Dixon line where you could get away with some city law like this. People would fire the mayor and city council rather quickly.
The top DC Polie Department officials responsible for this FUBAR (whether it’s true or not) should be fired and charged with criminal malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance.
Flogging should be the sentence upon conviction in a trial.
How did DC police dept fingerprint files get on Lois Lerner hard drive...?
This is INTENTIONAL HARASSMENT of citizens and THEFT by D.C. govt. Lawsuit coming ?
Durham, North Carolina. Up until recently Durham was the only jurisdiction in the entire state of North Carolina where handgun registration was “required” (or even, for that matter, legal). They were grandfathered in when the state law banning handgun registration was passed in the ‘30s for Jim Crow reasons, as Durham has always had a large black population.
The General Assembly recently revoked Durham’s exception under the law...over the violent objection of the local government, who are all liberals (many of them racist radical blacks) who support extreme gun restrictions or gun bans.
}:-)4
Washington is south of the Mason-Dixon line, which is the PA-MD border. But I hear ya.
Publicly pass a law to attach the same fees to voting in the District and let the Left’s heads explode trying to say one is not like the other...
Where else but gov’t could you supply a printed receipt, showing payment, and STILL have to re-pay for the privileged of utilizing ones’ Rights
There’s a sign on I-81 on the Pa/Md border that denotes the Mason/Dixon line. Only one that I know of...
This the same type of culture that invented OBAMACARE and the Detroit Renaissance.
That is chicken feed for DC. Not even chicken feed. There's something more going on. Bet there's an extra question or two on the new improved registration form that obama wants to know about gun owners. Besides, it also catches those who have had too many boating accidents.
“As Miller points out, the fingerprinting is done electronically, so how can they be lost?”
Must have stored them on IRS computers.
Eff the government.
The Second Amendment says nothing about registration for it nor for any other amendment in the
Constitution’s Bill Of Rights.
If the Congress sees fit to modify this right - though I regard them all as Divine Rights - then they must do so in the manner described by the Constitution.
Other than that, they can KMA.
Were they stored on a hard drive that also had subpoenaed emails on it?
It isn’t the gun owner’s fault that the DC cops were so sloppy to lose the fingerprints. They sure shouldn’t have to pay a fee again to reregister
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