Comments on: How legally to get a gun into DC

By: Mostly Annoyed

Mostly Annoyed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:34:45 +0000

While you may in 28 days posess a handgun, all guns must be registered. This lets them know who owns them when they change the laws and make your gun illegal and come to collect it. If you are really lucky your gun wil not be destroyed before the court rules the law unconstitutional and they will give it back, but not likely.
Also the police chief has said semi-automatic handguns will not be allowed(not that she writes laws). So does that mean only single action rvolvers and does anyone make them anymore? I suspect the next version will be so restrictive that it will be an effective ban on handguns again and will go right back to the Supreme Court. They love to waste money on these little games. If they can put it off another year and show they are puting up a fight, they are able to raise more money to up the courts with this garbage.

Just add this to the 999999 other reasons not to live in DC. Virginia is a much better place to live. It must be, “Virginia is for Lovers!” And they love gun owners!

By: Mostly Annoyed

Mostly Annoyed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:34:45 +0000

Just add this to the 999999 other reasons not to live in DC. Virginia is a much better place to live. It must be, “Virginia is for Lovers!” And they love gun owners!

By: twofoot

twofoot — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:32:49 +0000

Why will the myth that truck drivers are prohibited from carrying firearms by the federal government not die? State and local law applies, as well as company policy.

By: love2rumba

love2rumba — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:20:47 +0000

On June 30th, 2008 at 4:57 pm, see-dubya said:
And I’m pretty sure those truckers are violating the GCA.

Which is a shame. If I were a long-haul trucker I would be sore tempted to ignore those requirements.

See-Dubya, they do in fact carry guns all the time…Long-Haul truckers like a short-barreled .410 shotgun…this is in complete contravention to the fact that the TSA has forbidden them federally to do so…another “gift” from Hamas-loving Jimmy Carter during the 1970s

By: atheling

atheling — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:27:46 +0000

On July 1st, 2008 at 9:34 am, misterbee241 said:

Lonesome Dove – my all time favorite western. America needs men like Woodrow and Augustus right now.

Amen! Those men had common sense and knew reality!

Captain Call on gun ownership:

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

By: atheling

atheling — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:25:23 +0000

On June 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

What is the news on the gun grabbing Ray Nagin? Didn’t he have the residents of NO, LA. turn in their guns? Now that the SCOTUS has rulled against the DC gun ban, will the residents be able to get their guns back?

The Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act was signed by President Bush not long after the NOLA violations occurred. Then-Congressman Bobby Jindal and the NRA pushed this legislation through Congress and was approved by Pres. Bush in 2006:

This bill prevents anyone working for the feds or working for a group that recieves money from the feds from:

(1) seizing or authorizing seizure of any firearm the possession of which is not prohibited under federal or state law, other than for forfeiture in compliance with federal law or as evidence in a criminal investigation;

2) requiring registration of any firearm for which registration is not required by federal or state law;

(3) prohibiting possession of any firearm in any place or by any person where such possession is not otherwise prohibited; or

(4) prohibiting the carrying of firearms by any person otherwise authorized to carry firearms, solely because such person is operating under the direction, control, or supervision of a federal agency in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency. (Congressional Record)

It appears that it was the feds who violated the 2nd Amendment Rights of those folks, since they are the ones addressed in this piece of legislation.

Another reason for my hopes for a Jindal ticket to the White House someday!

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:15:52 +0000

marsouin
I am a life-long DC resident and own firearms. Yes, you can purchase firearms outside DC – it’s what I did. However, before you can take them home, you must apply for registration with the DC police (passport photo and $40) and wait a day or so for approval. Then, you can take your firearm home.

As things stand now the good people of D.C., all four of them, should just buy what they can now and see how it shakes out. Tis better to be judged by twelve than carried by six it is. Buy a rifle, carbine or handgun from a private individual where you can. Come to Arizona, it is legal here. And our crime rate is a whole lot lower than D.C. Factor out the drug gangs from Mexico and it is lower yet.

By: misterbee241

misterbee241 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:34:42 +0000

Don’t settle for any surly service from them.

Lonesome Dove – my all time favorite western. America needs men like Woodrow and Augustus right now.

By: marsouin

marsouin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:50:16 +0000

On June 30th, 2008 at 2:03 pm, letget said:

S/D, of course I meant legally! I should have made myself clear with the previous post. If you legally buy a gun, regestered in another state and bring it to DC, why don’t citizens there do it?

I am a life-long DC resident and own firearms. Yes, you can purchase firearms outside DC – it’s what I did. However, before you can take them home, you must apply for registration with the DC police (passport photo and $40) and wait a day or so for approval. Then, you can take your firearm home.

By: twofoot

twofoot — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:49:15 +0000

Sorry, but there is nothing in the FMCSR that regulates commercial drivers carrying firearms. It’s whatever state and local law (as well as company policy) has to say about it that applies.

By: Hollowpoint

Hollowpoint — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:32:15 +0000

Not necessarily. I know for a fact when my father in law inherited some rifles from his mother in Idaho he had to have them shipped from a gun shop in Idaho directly to a gun shop in Connecticut, where he could then claim them (subject, I am sure to showing that he had whatever proper permits were necessary).

The reason he had to go through a FFL holder was that he was shipping them from one person to another. Had he driven to CT, picked them up and drove them home, no federal law would have been broken.

By: conservative247

conservative247 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:38:21 +0000

I tried to put some information in a blog post over at conservative247.org.

Briefly goes through the general rules – some mandated by the feds – for purchasing a pistol at a local dealer and over the Internet (requiring a FFL transfer in your local state).

More here.

What a business opportunity in D.C.!

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By: Goldwater Knight

Goldwater Knight — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:20:57 +0000

Dubs you’re right I called up my bud and truckers can’t transport guns across state lines. I have a little story by the way. Goes like this:

Dave the trucker is at a truck stop in Central New York and two goons approach him to ask a question.
“Where ya headed?”, says Goon number one.
Dave replies, “Albany.”
Goon two pulls out a knife and says,”You’re going to Buffalo.”
Dave pulls out a .357 and says, “No, I’m going to Albany.” He jumps in his truck and drives away.

True story.