Heller gets his gun permit
Happy day: Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the D.C. gun ban case, received his permit today for his revolver.
Congratulations and thanks are in order:
The man whose lawsuit overturned Washington’s handgun ban has successfully registered his revolver, ending a more than 30-year wait to keep the weapon in his home.
Dick Heller walked out of D.C. police headquarters Monday, clutching a yellow firearms registration certificate stamped “approved.” He gave the thumbs-up sign, grinned and said, “Victory!”
Heller was among the first people to seek a gun permit under new rules adopted after the Supreme Court struck down the city’s 32-year-old handgun ban in June. Heller was the plaintiff in that case.
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For his “revolver”. What a joke D.C. is.
Congrats and thanks to Heller … it is a start … now to clean up the inane definitions and rules the DC idiots came up with to try to subvert through confusion what qualifies for personal ownership …
Congratulations, Mr. Heller. Let’s celebrate the fact that we’ve gotten this far in DC today. We’ll fight the unconstitutional ban on semi-automatics tommorow.
Good for you Heller and for the 2nd amendment.
L
Going to go fire off a few rounds in his honor!
Congrats, you da man!
now, about those carry permits…
Just be careful they don’t put in a law on the ammo you can have with the gun!
And I thought DC was going to keep fighting 2nd Amendment rights “over Heller highwater.” (snare drum)
Congratulations, Mr. Heller.
Amen.
This is great for Heller. Now, let’s see how many excuses for denial they’ll come up with for others who are seeking to do the same.
May he never need to use it!
We can’t let up now. Let BHO place a judge or two on the SCOTUS and it’s all up in the air again.
Now we can sit back and watch as the level of violent crime starts decreasing (providing the Demo-brats lose this November).
permit? Having to get a permit to have a gun in your home makes it a privilege granted by the government. Didn’t the SCOTUS just say it’s a right, not a privilege?
I have a feeling some people from the NRA was seeing this happened in DC. We need to support their effort for our freedoms being able to carry arms.
L
A .22 caliber revolver, I hope he is a good shot.
Mr. Heller’s tenacity is impressive.
Would that our elected officials were as focused on protecting Constitutional mandates.
THANK YOU - Dick HELLER..
CS
Congratulations to Mr. Heller. Now he can defend his home against intruders (the police can’t!) and defend himself against a bizarro government.
This is not over. Keep pushing, Heller. D.C. is flat wrong on this issue and you’re going to have to twist their arms to prove it.
You are correct, single stack, it is a right. However, even I am willing to grant that the government has the power to regulate fireams in some way. They are, by definition, deadly. Like registering a car because, as SCOTUS has ruled, you can commit a crime and travel to another jurisdiction very quickly.
I don’t believe the government can go overboard with regulation, the way the socialists want. I believe in a limited government.
Way to go Mr. Heller! And lets not forget the NRA. They played a huge role along with Heller. Yes, I am a member and I encourage all of you to join. They are the best protection for those of us that are strong supporters of the Second Amendment can have.
Good on you Mr. Heller. Congratulations!
Scalia really betrayed the meaning of second amendment in Heller. He made it a privilege ( instead of a right ) by conceding the second amendment allows government to regulate the type of firearms and to require permits and many other restrictions.
I challenge all you Scalia lovers to explain how requiring permits and restricting the type of guns allowed is compatible with a conservative reading of 2nd amendment.
Step number one down. Now, step two. Overturn their ban on semi-auto’s. Then, go after their stupid requirement for a license to keep a gun in one’s home.
Sure glad I live in Oklahoma, where the 2nd amendment is still recognized.
I always liked the quote:
“An armed society is a polite society!”.
Now, Mr. Heller can hang the sign on his door: Never mind the dog, beware of owner!.
Many thanks and congrats to Mr. Heller. Now if only I can get my permit from NYS. I’ve only been waiting three months, not bad so far.
Just out of curiosity, what type of pistol do you prefer, Michelle?
I like my S&W Model 66 .357 magnum. My wife also does alright with it, when it’s loaded with .38 special cartridges.
This is not a victory. He still got denied a permit for his semi-auto. He’s still suing DC over that.
Basically, he got a permit for the only thing that DC will still issue him a permit for, post-Heller v. DC.
On August 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm, PersonalLiberty said:
Baby steps…
I agree, this is no victory. We’re supposed to be happy the communists decided to uphold the US Constitution?
He should just carry 20 or 30 revolvers.
I don’t see this as a victory at all.
Spending weeks and jumping through numerous hoops just to register a .22 revolver that must be kept locked and unloaded in his home until an intruder points a .45 semi-auto at him isn’t a victory for anyone but the gun grabbers.
And the criminals.
A .22 revolver? Might as well have a water pistol.
Job well done Mr. Heller, congrats.
“Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
Thomas Paine
Agreed.
When the left makes a small gain, banning a certain gun, a type of ammo, or passing a new tax, they don’t complain that it wasn’t enough. They crow victory and proclaim: “It’s a good first step!”
We can do the same. It ain’t much, but it’s a good first step toward reclaiming our freedoms.
Multiple thugs are running around DC with Uzis and semi-automatic pistols and he only gets the “right” to have a revolver! Head shot between the eyes is his only alternative.
I just hope he remembers to store the gun in a disassembled condition with each piece locked in a separate D.C.-approved rotary combination safe, and each bullet stored separately, at least 10 feet from each other or any piece of the firearm. Note that each bullet must also be stored in a disassembled condition, with each casing, slug, and powder charge kept in separate compartments of a fireproof container with a keyed lock, each bullet’s components in a separate container.
A good day for freedom!
He shouldn’t need to beg them for a permission slip to own a weapon in the first place.
It won’t be long ’til some stupid local government will make you take out a fat permit to eat a cheeseburger …
In DC I believe the cheeseburger must be kept disassembled and locked up. No multiple meat cheeseburgers are allowed. Your cheeseburger must revolve.
Yep. Drink you koolaid and dance like a monkey ..
“Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death.”
Roseanne Barr (blogging about Angelina Jolie)
Can we assume America’s collective IQ has declined since the late 1700s?
Yep, not long at all judging from the 7 minutes after your post that this moron opined:
Thank God I live in a sane state (AZ) and have my concealed carry license.
Depending on when and where I eat, it does revolve. I ate at Fatburger on Sunday afternoon, and it was definitely revolving. Well worth it, though. Best $7 you can spend in 15 minutes.
Score one for the Constitution.
I look at this one as a mixed bag. Yes, he finally got to register his .22 revolver. What I take exception to is that he had to be fingerprinted and take a proficiency test to keep it in his HOME. When I bought both of my semi-autos I did have to do the thumbprint thing when I purchased them, but there was no comprehensive fingerprinting or testing done until I actually took the class and applied for my conceal carry permit.
thank you Dick Heller!
He got a wussie revolver? Move to Idaho, we have real arms here.
Good for Mr. Heller. The next three steps are (1) to get the “no semiautomatic” regulation thrown out, (2) to get the “locked or disassembled” regulation thrown out (both of which fly directly in the face of Justice Scalia’s opinion), and (3) to get “shall issue” concealed carry passed and implemented in D.C. with nationwide reciprocity.
Personally, I carry revolvers for defensive purposes, a .357 Magnum and a .38 Special. If six isn’t enough, I have an 1895 Soviet-built Nagant 7.62X38R revolver that holds 7 rounds. Now if I could just find hollowpoints for it…
ECS
Elm Creek
In D.C. you must limit your stopping power. More humane or something.
“At last my arm is whole again!”
We did have a WIN!!!
WE must continue the Extended battle!
The LEFT looks to the long view –and wrests freedom a little at a time!
We tend to say-OK - we won–now back to business a usual–
We must be ever Watchful!!!
That’s bureaucrateeze for “when we find a judge to agree with us, we’ll know where to come to get your gun off the street.
That’s how it happened in Canad and Australia. First registration, then confiscation.
This is why I only buy guns in private sales or trade shows. No paper trail telling the government where to go to collect my guns.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, should be licensed by the States.
and in other news….
DC City Council Passes ‘One Handgun Per Lifetime’ Ordinance
What we need is no registration and nationwide right to carry laws.
If you read the 2nd amendment, no where does it imply that the goverment has a right to regulate what type, how many, or where or how they must be stored. The constitution is silent on the possession or use of cars.
The DC Gov’t (as well has many others) and SCOTUS has overstepped their bounds. The 2nd amendment says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
SCOTUS made a step in the right direction regarding the militia part, but allowing a local or federal legislator to mandate what kind, or how it’s stored is overstepping. ((IMHO)
Granted there is no need for an individual to own an RPG or such, but an individual firearm regardless of type or caliber is protected. There are laws on the books that adequately address crimes commited with the use of guns. If you shoot someone, you can be tried under the various assault, murder etc. laws. If you shoot and damage anothers personal property, there are criminal as well as civil statutes for redress.
The gun control laws are nothing more than an attempt to protect society as a whole, by eliminating the weapon of choice of a few criminals. To ban guns based on a shooting, is akin to banning cars based on that UNC muslim killing people for islam with his SUV. Didn’t see a liberal rush to ban cars after that, did you?
cngerms
I beleive the word arms is plural.
22cal, you’ve got to be kidding! I assume it was single action! I guess if he throws it at an intruder he might have time to run away while they duck!
Mr. Heller:
Congratulations on the success of your efforts and for your hard work on behalf of The Second Amendment.
I am celebrating your success by racking the slides on each of my pistols, thoroughly enjoying the sound of the slide moving forward and chambering a round.
Hammer’s down and safety’s on!
But, as has been mentioned various times above . . . small victories need to be savored before getting back to the fight.
Well done Mr. Heller.
FamilyMan, I hope the elitists in DC government see it as plural, but I’m not holding my breath. It’s already been proven that the DC City Council, the Mayor, and the Police Chief can’t read. They view the Constitution and the Heller decision as nothing more than unquilted toilet tissue. They certainly won’t be hindered by a little ole ’s.’
I don’t consider the hoops one has to jump through to be allowed to register (which makes it a privilege and not a right) only a revolver a victory. One of many reasons I thank God for letting me live in Idaho. Anyone entering my domicile without my permission will be met with either a 12 gauge with double 00 buckshot or my XD compact 45. Cal ACP with 230 grain hollow points. All depends which I can get to the quickest to follow my military training aiming at center of mass until the threat is neutralized. I still say the Mayor and gang ruling the District of Columbia is in contempt of the highest court of the land and needs to suffer the consequences.
example of the LONG fight:
Mt.Soladad cross stays–20 year battle–Thomas More Law:::::
http://www.thomasmore.org/default-sb_thomasmore.html?749797290
A victory it is. We should never have had such a battle to start with. If anyone outlaws my guns then they can come and get them. I’ll make sure to show them that their life is not worth taking my guns.
Hmmm, so who’s taking D.C to task for the .380 (I think it was a .380) he couldn’t register?
It is a baby step.
It’s also pathetic that 4 judges out of 9 refused, out of their own political misguidedness, to affirm what the amendment actually says. Or worse yet, that 1 out of 3 on the DC District Court said that since DC residents aren’t state residents, they aren’t covered by the Bill of Rights at all.
A right has been turned into a priveledge. Would we be cheering if he got a “free speech permit”?
When we’re all like Alaska and Vermont, then it’ll be time to celebrate. For now, it’s time to push on and start suing all the other dictatorial nanny-state tyrant-lites out there. Like Daley and Bloomberg.
And maybe, just maybe, we’ll eventually get a Supreme Court wise enough to recognize “arms” covers everything short of “ordnance” - and who recognize that free armed societies are safe, polite societies.
It’s also time to push back against the leftist mindset that rewards criminals rather than punishes them, and punishes citizens for defending themselves.
More autonomy threatens the nanny state, but preserves and nourishes the individual, the family, the community, and the nation. Oh, it may take a while…
DD - #65
It was a 1911 .45, from what I’ve heard.
DC’s regulations make any firearm that feeds from a bottom magazine a machinegun. They’ve had that rule since 1977. Their Constitution-burning AG Peter Nickles defends it here:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9040865&ch=4226713&src=news
Of course, the story is set with him speaking over confiscated weapons. At least the reporter laughs at him - pointing out that a robber has to set up an appointment to make sure you have time to load your gun.
So Heller should register one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren_light_machine_gun
And since semi-autos are illegal but revolvers aren’t, he should register a Webley Fosbury semi-auto revolver, just to mess with them.
What part of “…the right of the people…shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
30 YEARS - JUST WOW.
“approved.” He gave the thumbs-up sign, grinned and said, “Victory!”
Dick Heller, thank you sir.
thirty years…..wow.
Thank you Mr. Heller for re-establishing our constitutional rights!
Would someone please clear this up for me? If Obama is elected, and if he can put a couple of Supremes on the bench, then the Second Ammendment can be repealed? My guns confiscated?
Well, mushroom, regardless of whether or not he CAN, isn’t it scary enough to know he’ll even try? You can flush all of that balloon juice he spews on the campaign trail and just look at his anti-2A voting record. At the very least, he’ll attempt to stack SCOTUS against the 2A. He’s already stated that he’d like to outlaw carry permits and while in IL he voted to ban gun shops within 5 miles of schools, bars, churches, day care centers, dumpsters, dissed hos and elsewhere. OK, I exaggerated with the last part of my list, but you get my point. The only place his administration will allow a gun shop is in the middle of some prairie dog town in central Montana.
Check out pg 43 of the 2008 Dem National Plan below. They will try to revive a Federal Assault Weapons Ban and you can be assured it will be more onerous than the first and without a sunset date. If that doesn’t work, watch for ammunition bans. It will be ugly.
http://www.workinglife.org/storage/users/4/4/images/111/2008%20democratic%20platform%20080808.pdf
…of the People, by the People, for the People…
They will probably try the ammunition bans first. Their fallback will be an onerous tax on ammunition that will make it prohibitive for most people to buy it in any sustainable quantities past personal protection and hunting usage. You would have to either sacrifice other areas of your budget or make darn good money to shoot for pleasure or go hunting. The results to the gun industry would be devastating as a lot of folks would not purchase any more guns due to the exorbitant cost of ammo. Ammo has already seen huge price increases in the last year. Most of this has been due to commodity pricing for metals.
There would also be a negative effect on wildlife conservation as gun and ammo purchases are covered under the Pittman-Robertson Act. The Federal Aid in Wildlife Resoration Act, better known as the Pittman-Robertson Act, was passed by Congress in 1937. This law placed an 11 percent excise tax on rifles, shotguns and ammunition. In 1970, Congress amended the act to include a 10 percent tax on handguns and archery equipment. There have been billions of dollars in revenue generated since the Act’s inception. This money goes to each state to be used for conservation of all species, not just game, and promotes hunter safety and other programs for outdoor usage.
The best defenses are to only vote for strict constitutionalist candidates and to join the NRA if you are currently not a member. I am a proud Life member and firmly believe in Charlton Heston’s words “…from my cold, dead hands!”
Watch those puns, I’m packing and not afraid to use it.
Travlinman knows his stuff. Outright ammo bans, exorbitant ammo taxes, or maybe just the revival of OSHA’s ridiculous ammo storage requirements; requirements no mom & pop shop could accomodate. Buy your bullet press, powder scales, and case trimmers now.
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Christopher Estep’s America: Heller Gets His Permit After 30 Years
Thank you, cngerms and travlinman. Geesh. Does this mean I need to start stocking up on ammo? I still can’t believe B. Hussein Obama might be our next Prez. Somebody, please tell me this can’t happen!!!
Heller is a hero!