Applying to register a gun in D.C.

WashingtonTimes ^ | January 27, 2012 | Emily Miller

[Daffynition]

While my new gun was being transferred to the District from Virginia, I returned to D.C.’s Gun Registry Office to turn in my registration application. As you will see in what follows, this should have been simple step, but it took all day. Like everything else in my effort to get a legal handgun in this city has been far more complicated and time-consuming that it needed to be.

[Daffynition]

"Let me see it!" I pleaded. "Please just take it out of the box so I can just look at it. I've only seen photos, come on!" Mr. Sykes held up the P229 two-tone. He let me hold it, and I was in love.

WTF? I can't believe what I am reading. A scene straight out of *Brazil*.

[mvpel]

Like everything else in my effort to get a legal handgun in this city has been far more complicated and time-consuming that it needed to be.

It's more complicated and time-consuming than it needs to be, unless the intended goal is to make it complicated and time-consuming to own a legal gun in DC. Then it's exactly as complicated and time-consuming as it needs to be.

[andy58-in-nh]

In the time this woman has been trying to obtain a single pistol, I could have bought as many weapons as I could afford with no undue inconvenience, nor absurd licensing and training requirements, nor confiscatory fees - just as the Constitution requires.

I could leave my house right now, drive fifteen minutes to my favorite gun store, pick out a handgun, fill out the Federal form, wait ten or fifteen minutes for a return call from the state capital confirming the background check, pay for the gun, and have it back at my house within an hour.

[Jack Hammer]

As everyone with eyes to see now knows, it remains perfectly acceptable to be a bigot in America, provided only that one discriminates against the current underclass.

And that underclass certainly includes both gun owners and would-be gun owners, as well as White males and anyone at all on the Right.

As for delays in the issuance of documents and the proliferation of red tape, that is catnip to the tens of millions of Marxists who are either running the country or acting as their cheerleaders.

[Daffynition]

Have you ever seen Terry Gilliam’s brilliant film: Brazil?

[Daffynition]

What do you suppose are the odds of who will need, a pistol for self-protection, more...a resident of NH or WaDC?

[The KG9 Kid]

"... I could leave my house right now, drive fifteen minutes to my favorite gun store, pick out a handgun, fill out the Federal form, wait ten or fifteen minutes for a return call from the state capital confirming the background check, pay for the gun, and have it back at my house within an hour."

I could leave my house right now, walk over to my gun-loving next door neighbor, ring the doorbell and say "Hey, want this free handgun?" when he answers, and be back at my house in under five minutes with (probably) a big bag of antelope jerky in trade.

[andy58-in-nh]

What do you suppose are the odds of who will need a pistol for self-protection, more...a resident of NH or WaDC?

It's far safer in New Hampshire of course. And it's safer because of the right to self-defense that is routinely denied to law-abiding citizens of Washington, D.C. (regardless of how scarce their numbers might be).

[andy58-in-nh]

Never tried antelope jerky. I did try smoked antelope sausage though last Christmas, and it was pretty good. An interesting thing about living in much of northern New England is how utterly different it is culturally from southern New England (aside from the liberal-infested coastal areas and the part of Vermont adjacent to New York State - all overrun by socialist scum). Aside from these transplanted liberals, virtually everyone owns guns here and it's no big deal.

If I walked around in my old Boston neighborhood the way I do here sometimes (carrying openly) I'd be arrested in seconds and would scare the living crap out of everyone up until that point. Young, face-pierced women with purple stringy hair and black clothes would be hyperventilating on the sidewalk up until that point, while their boyfriends cowered behind them. Here, if someone sees me it's usually, "Hey, whatcha carryin'? "Nice rig" or, "I got me one of those too, but in two-tone with custom grips". Very different.

[jim_trent]

> Have you ever seen Terry Gilliam’s brilliant film: Brazil?

I would like to see his original cut. The one I saw was ridiculous — complete with a happy ending.

[Daffynition]

What were you expecting, then? The *THREE-DISC SPECIAL* has some cut scenes, but I doubt if it will change anything for you. It was better than Orwell.

[jim_trent]

My understanding (not first hand since I have not seen both versions) that the widely distributed one had a tacked-on happy ending that did not fit at well with the rest of the movie.