Posted on 05/16/2010 5:55:34 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Mark Snyder, an amateur biathlete, wanted to buy a .22-caliber bolt-action rifle for target shooting and figured the process would take about a week. After nearly six weeks, six visits to police departments and $300 in fees, he secured his rifle.
"I was not expecting a free ride," said Mr. Snyder, 45, "but this is an obstacle course they put in place."
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's 32-year ban on handguns in 2008, a victory for the gun-rights lobby that seemed to promise a more permissive era in America's long tussle over gun ownership. Since then, the city has crafted rules that are proving a new, powerful deterrent to residents who want to buy firearms.
Legal gun owners must be registered by the city, a red flag for many in the gun-rights community concerned that registration lists could be used to confiscate firearms. The District limits the number of bullets a gun can hold and the type of firearm residents can buy. It requires that by next year manufacturers sell guns equipped with a special identification technology—one that hasn't yet been adopted by the industry.
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Right now, the legal advantage lies with the District. In a federal District Court ruling in March, Judge Ricardo Urbina upheld the city's gun law, writing that the Supreme Court didn't rule gun registration "unconstitutional as a general matter." The judge concluded the city had the power to limit the kinds of firearms permissible and the size of ammunition magazines.
The fact is, DC’s gun laws are a joke. They are meant to get around the Constitutional rights of citizens and ban guns.
The District City Council can and will write rules and laws restricting guns faster than the Supreme Court can rule on them. They are deliberately thumbing their nose at the ruling by the court and there isnt a damned thing anyone can do about it except the court and they wont.
Go ahead Supreme Court, make another ruling, they will just go around it with another rule.
With the number of guns in America, crime with guns would be called statistcally zero by a professional statistican. If automible numbers were simular accidents etc. withautos involved would also ba ruled to be ‘’statistacitly’’ zero.
One thing the law abiding citizen who wants a gun can do is move out of the District to MD or Va.
The good people should move out, and leave it to the criminals—both those ensconced in our Capitol, and those causing crime on the streets.
They deserve each other................
Along with an affirmative vote for incorporation under the 14th Amendment, we SHOULD see some guidelines for the states and federal judges.
Also, once incorporated against the states, individual LEO, judges and prosecutors can be sued if they violate that basic "human right".
The anti-gun crowd is going to go NUTS.
For the life of me, I can't see why more don't. I mean Maryland isn't exactly a gun-lovers' paradise either but Virginia is fair.
I moved over the border from NY to PA for political (and taxation) reasons. DC is - how big? It can't be that big of an inconvenience to vote with your feet.
And that’s what happens when the Supreme Court listens to the only gun group that asked for the “Narrow” view so that the Heller ruling would have no effect on the 20,000 gun laws in this country.
I would not suggest anyone move to Maryland if they do not like restrictive gun laws. I live in Maryland and can say our laws are not as restrictive as the Districts, but they are still very restrictive when it comes to carrying a firearm.
Geez, you just can't help yourself can you? But at least they didn't just sit on the sidelines with your love-child and hope for the best.
Five lawsuits after Heller.
Zero from your do nothing gun group.
You’re suffering from projection.
I realize that VA has much better gun laws than MD—but I do know people in MD who do have guns—and certainly, both are better than DC.
Personally, I would prefer to not live anywhere in the NE—but people have to live where they’re planted—LOL!
WASHINGTON—Mark Snyder, an amateur biathlete, wanted to buy a .22-caliber bolt-action rifle for target shooting and figured the process would take about a week. After nearly six weeks, six visits to police departments and $300 in fees, he secured his rifle.
"I was not expecting a free ride," said Mr. Snyder, 45, "but this is an obstacle course they put in place."
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's 32-year ban on handguns in 2008, a victory for the gun-rights lobby that seemed to promise a more permissive era in America's long tussle over gun ownership. Since then, ...
“The good people should move out, and leave it to the criminals—both those ensconced in our Capitol, and those causing crime on the streets.
They deserve each other................”
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Remember the movie, Excape From New York City?
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