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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 03/07/2012 12:50:23 PM PST by servo1969
In Washington, D.C., it is illegal to posses ammunition if you don’t 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. What’s 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 don’t exist.
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Let Freedom Ring,
Any bets on how many liberal b*stard slime-dripping marshmallow major congresscritters are packing heat?
Any bets on how many liberal b*stard slime-dripping marshmallow major congresscritters are packing heat?
Sounds like an 18USC240 action is appropriate here. Get their names and sue them until they're dead broke, starving, and in the streets.
Tells you things.
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!!!!
It’s a good thing D.C. has such strict laws. Otherwise, there might be violent crime there.
Nice article on Miller’s experience with DC gun laws - marking for later read.
I have bricks of .22LR in use as bookends.
I check my pockets for .22LR before I wash clothes.
How do you get by with a 'box' of ammo?
DC is fornicated.
/johnny
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So when you sell a gun (and the gun shop refuses to even take your ammo as a gift) what are you supposed to with it? Wrap it in a box and leave it on the steps of the nearest fire station?
She should just move out of that rat hole. The sooner the better.
Tells you things.
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!
Butter, butcher, steak, etc......
I'm a bad man.
Thanks, now I have to clean my computer screen!
DC serves as an invaluable lesson in what the Marxists want to do to the entire country.
The 20mm AP rounds were lost in an unfortunate boating accident years ago....
It’s quite sobering to contemplate on the fact that doing something that is commonplace in most parts of the country could have you ending up in prison in other parts. I can’t even imagine what it feels like to live in such represive anti constitutional places such as DC, Chigago, NJ or Mass.
Like others here, I have dozens of different caliber ammuntion in varying quantities. To think that I could serve a prison sentence equal to a murderer or child molester for something as mundane as having a can opener in the kitchen drawer is mind boggling to say the least.
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