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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: piytar

> “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.


41 posted on 07/14/2008 5:38:53 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Guns will also still require trigger locks.

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?

42 posted on 07/14/2008 5:39:02 PM PDT by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: knarf

So , they coming into your house to see if their locked, bad idea.


43 posted on 07/14/2008 5:39:07 PM PDT by reefdiver (Had Enough? Drill 4 OIL)
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To: piytar
The trigger lock part is clearly an intential violation of civil rights under color of law.

Someone who can afford to will need to take this back to the SC.
D.C. know that no one can or will.

44 posted on 07/14/2008 5:39:28 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

“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.


45 posted on 07/14/2008 5:39:29 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

File another suit.


46 posted on 07/14/2008 5:40:12 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“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?


47 posted on 07/14/2008 5:40:42 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: kAcknor

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...


48 posted on 07/14/2008 5:40:52 PM PDT by piytar
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To: ktime

Excellent point!


49 posted on 07/14/2008 5:41:00 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right)
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To: sourcery
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.

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.

50 posted on 07/14/2008 5:41:21 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (DNC = Do Nothing Congress)
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To: Bubba_Leroy; Enterprise; centurion
Gun owners will have to pass vision . . . tests

Before you know it, a suit challenging this law on ADA grounds will be filed. The poor leftists will be all torn up trying to figure out which side they should be on.

Wheee! This should be fun! Stock up on popcorn!

There are a lot of legally blind folks out there who are impressive shooters.

51 posted on 07/14/2008 5:43:17 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: upcountryhorseman

Yup. The NRA was against Heller going to te SCOTUS because they were scared to death of an adverse ruling. Now that Heller has been decided, the NRA is going to go off using it to challenge gun laws, as will numerous other organizations and even individuals.


52 posted on 07/14/2008 5:44:25 PM PDT by piytar
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To: kAcknor
The last long gun I bought here in Iowa had a lock on it. Morons didn't give me a key. Rather than drive back the store to get a key I permanently disabled the lock. Took a long bladed screw driver and about 10 seconds.
53 posted on 07/14/2008 5:44:33 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: ConservativeMajority

Are you legally blind?

You could well win.


54 posted on 07/14/2008 5:46:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: ConservativeMajority
I’m thinking of a civil rights lawsuit against the mayor and city council.

If literacy tests cannot be required for voting, they shouldn't be allowed as a requirement for any other constitutional right.

However, to have any chance of success, the lawsuit needs to be filed by a liberal-recognized minority protected class. Do you know of a blind, black lesbian who would be willing to serve as class plaintiff?

55 posted on 07/14/2008 5:47:50 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (DNC = Do Nothing Congress)
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To: TheZMan

The whole thing is to let you know that THEY are still in charge of your rights an that THEY will measure them out as THEY see fit. Looks like they need another lawsuit to slap them silly again.


56 posted on 07/14/2008 5:49:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
According to SCOTUSBlog:

However, any gun kept in the owner’s home would have to be kept unloaded and disassembled or else disabled by a trigger lock. The only time that requirement is not in force, under the proposal law, would be when the gun was “being used to protect against a reasonably perceived threat of immediate harm to a person” within that person’s home.

That provision, officials told reporters, was meant to allow a handgun owner to get the gun and load it — for example, if a burglar were at the door. It would not allow the gun to be loaded or assembled or unlocked at all times it remained in the home.

I am sure that nice burglar will wait at the door until the homeowner is loaded, unlocked and ready. I predict another Supreme smackdown for these folks.

57 posted on 07/14/2008 5:50:37 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: Bubba_Leroy

The incorporation doctrine needs to be applied to the Bill of Rights and namely the 2nd Amendment by the SCOTUS. Until then, this is the crap that will be pulled.

Now in DC you will have prohibition through regulation and red tape.


58 posted on 07/14/2008 5:51:28 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Jet Jaguar

As a white, Christian, male, pro-America conservative, I might be a minority class of one.


59 posted on 07/14/2008 5:52:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
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.

Let's just hope the First Amendment is fixed too.

Those who wish to express opinions, can now open their mouths inside their own homes, but will be required to wear a gag at all times, when not brushing their teeth.  Those planning to open their mouths outside the home could jeopardize their right to open their mouth at all.

Mouth owners will have to pass reading, writing, speaking, and spelling tests prior to being recognized to practice their First Amendment rights in their own and only their own home.

First they must provide a photo with their application to register that mouth, as well as leave a dental impression.  Homeowners must allow law enforcement officials access to verify gags are in place in the home.  Those who refuse or are found not to be using gags, may be arrested and charged with non-compliance of District Code 7734.

Punishment may include but not be limitied to everything you have including your freedom, for the rest of your life.

Thank you Socialist Democrats. You folks are so good to us.

60 posted on 07/14/2008 5:52:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Annapolis, flight school, Congress, Senate, MIAs, Keating 5, Soros, Kerry... tried & found wanting!)
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