Posted on 03/07/2012 12:50:23 PM PST by servo1969
In Washington, D.C., it is illegal to posses ammunition if you dont have a gun registered. It is also unlawful to have ammo that is not in the same caliber or gauge as your legal gun. The penalty for holding a round of the wrong caliber is up to a year in jail -- as stiff as the punishment for illegal gun possession.
So I was very careful not to buy ammunition before I had my legally registered gun at home. Although I wondered about the purpose of the law. Whats the worst I could do with ammo, but no gun? Throw it hard and knock a tooth out?
After I became a gun owner, I needed to find a place to buy a box of 9mm for my gun. The restrictions in the District are strict, but the D.C. gun registry office staff make it more difficult. As I learned, the police who staff the office and are tasked with explaining the gun laws to residents just invent laws that dont exist.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I know a lot of Firefighters in DC who would be glad to get it.
Crime in the United States, FBI, 1998
For much more gun info, click the image in reply 2 on this thread..........
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The first thing that leapt to mind when I read that was .41 Vetterli rimfire in copper cases, that I used(?) to have a box of, but that's Swiss I think.
Wouldn't want to break the law. Better stay outside city limits. In fact, shoot without leaving the comforts of your home town!
The object is not to prevent crime, but to make the ownership of guns so onerous and legally dangerous, that the number of legal gun owners will be whittled down until they are no longer a viable political force.
If the 'box' is a 20 ft. shipping container, that might work....
Otherwise, I dunno.
I bought a couple boxes of pistol ammo at WallyWorld last night, and the lady in charge of the sporting goods counter handled it like it would bite her...
Sadly, we have a long way to go to get rid of the ingrained hoplophobia out there...
I bet there are lots of Freepers with DC gun stories to tell but they’d never tell them on the internet.
I think barney fife in the article was trying to explain that she needed her
Cert to carry ammo but then got carried away extrapolating.
But according to the cop suckers on FR, "The police are on our side." I guess if you're a government bureaucrat or another cop they're on your side. Otherwise, I can't see it.
Maybe a few like this
In North Dakota? Really?
If you are local, can pass a drug test, and are willing and able to work, chances are you're making far more than Walmart wages.
For a while, things were really tough there, just not enough help. Then they started offering a room with the $12/hr wages and overtime and got some people in--some of them transfers--from all over.
They are decent folks from what I have seen, but such programming dies hard.
I was in the house that my daughter lives in with 3 roommates last week. There was a partial box of federal .22 LR on a desk, along with a magazine for a Ruger 10/22. Glad to see she is living with such fine upstanding folks. Even if they are all weird, it being Austin and all. :)
Thanks for the heads up. Yes, the programming dies hard. My dream is to move to a place where I can shoot in my back yard. Problem is that I grew up in the Northeast and I have aging parents who probably have no interest in moving. Plus my wife (who would love to move to the country too) has her family here as well.
Take care.
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