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 ...
(Guns will also still require trigger locks.)
In other words citizens of DC still have no right to self defense with a handgun.
There are 2 laws that liberals/socialist instituted that almost always get citizens killed.
Protection from Abuse Orders and Trigger Lock laws.
“Guns will also still require trigger locks.”
That part (at the least) clearly runs afoul of Heller.
“Guns will still also require trigger locks.”
Why bother having the damn thing. Bunch of petulant children.
I thought that the “Trigger Locks” requirement was also struck down. Or am I confused...again.
Weren't trigger locks an important part of the case? I thought I read in one of the majority opinions that to have the right to have a gun but not have the right to have it "unlocked" (my word) is foolish...or something like that.
Still sounds like infringement to me!
“Guns will still also require trigger locks.”
Rifle came with one when I bought it.
Still in the bag.
So when’s the lawsuit, and will there be a temporary injunction to stop them?
Idiots!
I have the exact same sense.I could be wrong however...because I certainly ain’t no lawyer.
Don’t even need a new lawsuit...the lower court enforcing Heller will strike down DC’s new try.
File law suits again..........take em back to court !
But not the district. Take the individuals who wrote , presented and passed this BS to court. The people who do this to other citizens can not hide behind a shield of office when they attempt too circumvent a “proven” constitutional right too keep and bear arms !
Take em down ......recall votes, attacks on their ability too rule or govern anything much less a city, county or state.
Doom on this seditious trash !
Looks like another lawsuit? Is the NRA up to it?
Looks like DC is planning to keep this thing in the courts for as long as they can.
yea bro I’m with you
It's a law in CT that ALL guns sold have to leave the store LOCKED after purchase.My cellar is awash in unused locks. Oh, there's also a CT law (somewhat enforeced depending on gun store) that you have to have a valid carry permit to even pick one up & look at it in the store.
Nice, huh?
We have the same nonsense in Arnoldlandia.
SUE THE BASTARDS!!
“even pick one up & look at it in the store’
Geez. Gotta trust the store clerk/owner, then.
The requirement for a written test will exclude about 90% of the D.C. population from owning a firearm.
Residents should be more concerned that today, there is no legal way of BUYING a handgun, since there is no 01 FFL's that are willing to transfer one into the district.
Funny, that one of the arguments DC used to argue against Heller was since they weren't a State, the law didn't apply, but now they will follow Federal law covering States in that one can not buy a handgun outside of one's home State without transferring it through a dealer.
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.
I think it's time for the President to maybe slap thee idiots down hard. Maybe send Cheney in with his shotgun as President of the Senate to explain the facts of life to these idiots.
Thank God, though I live in one of the most liberal, far-left, socialist states in the country (Vermont) we enjoy one of the most least restrictive CCW policies in the country.
What ta hell good is having a handgun if when there is a need to possibly use it, one must search in the middle of the night, in darkness, for a key to unlock your weapon while under stress, and every second could mean the difference between life and death.
F'n moron, libs, would not know the difference between a handgun and a spitball.
IF some day, one of these moonbats (or family member) is subjected to some horrible incident, then, you will see a major about face about what they now advocate.
I say shy of the POTUS, VPOTUS and Speaker of the House no polidiot should have government paid or provided security or personal security details (PSD’s)
Make this trash wade through the same sh*tswamp they force others too cope with every day of our lives. If they want too pack a pistol for personal security make them work within the same laws we have too live with for our own security !
As of right now I say .... RE-ELECT NO ONE.... in congress...........EVER !
Notice has been served !
Not really. Because one can't purchase a handgun without a valid carry permit. And, if you want a long gun (and you have no carry permit) you have to wait 2 weeks while they do a background check.
With a carry permit, you can walk out with either or.
I thought the same thing, but I remember it was in the context of the requirement to disassemble the gun. Perhaps it was only the disassembly that was struck down.
I simply wouldn’t use the lock. Have the lock handy, but don’t use it.
Perhaps someone will get rich inventing a quick-touch lock release.
You also will only be allowed the right to speak freely inside your own home. And you’ll have to be muzzled when not speaking.
A right to bear arms can no more be restricted to one’s home than a right to worship can be restricted to a church building.
In Ohio the gun has to leave the store WITH a lock. I have quite a collected of unwanted/used locks myself. But lately I've been offering to have the clerk follow me out and carry the thing back into the store so I don't have to deal with it!
Exactly.
Discrimination against the handicapped.
I am serious. Blind folks should be able to keep and bare arms for protection as will.
sue their cans off.
This is a "civil right." The D.C. government should be hit with damages and attorneys fees and costs for messing with the civil rights of D.C. residents.
Congressman Billybob
First three in the series, "American Government: The Owner's Manual" are here, and also on FR
And, don't cha just feeeel safer, too? How come the .45 in my waistband didn't need a lock when I went into the store to get my new Sig P239/9mm? LOL
Yup, persue criminal charges. The trigger lock part is clearly an intential violation of civil rights under color of law.
I’m thinking this could be fought on the same basis that poll taxes were fought. “unreasonable restriction”
( on the other hand, I would not be surprised to find a $10k tax per gun and $100 tax per bullet to be found Constitutional)
I live in DC. I demand my constitutional rights to self-defense under the Second Amendment! I’m thinking of a civil rights lawsuit against the mayor and city council. Thoughts?
Kaaaaaching! Lawyers will rack up a lot of fees and are already planning an extra house in the Hamptons and double trips to the Bahamas, plus braces for the kids and a new Bentley.
If you can’t have a handgun outside your home in DC. How in the name of God are you supposed to buy one and bring it home or remove it from your home to sell it?
> “Guns will also still require trigger locks.”
> That part (at the least) clearly runs afoul of Heller
I suppose the key to the trigger lock will be kept by the DC cops.
How are the Gov Schmucks going to prove/know, how fast you can remove a trigger lock and shoot the intruder, when hit fits the sham.
Can they prove you did not have a trigger lock?
So , they coming into your house to see if their locked, bad idea.
Someone who can afford to will need to take this back to the SC.
D.C. know that no one can or will.
“Trigger locks? How can they even enforce such a mandate?”
It is to make sure that a majority of citizens are criminals at any given time.
File another suit.
“Guns will also still require trigger locks.”
Cretins! Morons! Scum!
Do we need to rewrite the majority decision in Blinglish so that these idiots may comprehend it?
Yup, that’s the rule here in Ohio. I actually don’t mind - some of those are good locks, and I find other uses for them...
Excellent point!
Coming soon to a liberal controlled district near you:
District residents will be able to pray in the home for self-defense but that right would be limited to the home and not outside it, city leaders said today, announcing prayer regulations in response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the city's religion ban.
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