MILLER: Buying ammunition in D.C.

The Washington Times ^ | February 27, 2012 | Emily Miller

[Venturer]

I know a lot of Firefighters in DC who would be glad to get it.

[AwesomePossum]

Washington D.C. has essentially banned gun ownership since 1976 and has a murder rate of 56.9 per 100,000. Across the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun ownership is less restricted. There, the murder rate is just 1.6 per 100,000, less than three percent of the Washington D.C. rate.

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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[Still Thinking]

I have boxes of ammo for rifles that I don't remember details of owning, including that weird Swedish caliber I recently found.

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.

[Still Thinking]

Can't have any armed patriots marching on DC doncha know! That would make them felons as soon as they crossed the city limits. Convenient!

Wouldn't want to break the law. Better stay outside city limits. In fact, shoot without leaving the comforts of your home town!

[marktwain]

I don’t get it. Where is the danger/problem in owning ammo if you don’t have the gun to shoot it? I own saw blades but I’ve thrown out my saw years ago. Do I go to jail? This is crazy!!!!

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

How do you get by with a 'box' of ammo?

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...

[golux]

I bet there are lots of Freepers with DC gun stories to tell but they’d never tell them on the internet.

[MaxMax]

Good thing you have the pronunciation correct or the MSM will attack you. LOL

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.

[from occupied ga]

As I learned, the police who staff the office and are tasked with explaining the gun laws to residents just invent laws that don’t exist.

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.

[from occupied ga]

Box of ammo

Maybe a few like this

[jjm2111]

In North Dakota? Really?

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep. But I don't think the person was local. Keep in mind that a lot of the non-oilfield jobs here have been filled by people from elsewhere of late.

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.

[El Gato]

I have bricks of .22LR in use as bookends.

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. :)

[jjm2111]

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.