Loading ...The lamestream media told you:
Although we very don’t like it, and our editorial department is in conniptions and working overtime to denigrate it, and even our “news” department is trying to spin it so it doesn’t say what it says, the Supreme Court has ruled that residents of Washington, D.C. can keep handguns in their homes (just like criminals, gang bangers, drug dealers, parolees, ex-felons, miscreants, assorted wackos and police and federal officers) but only for self defense and personal protection. What’s the world coming to, here comes Armageddon, or at least the Wild Wild West.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Although innocent, defenseless, law-abiding, decent, harmless, female, gay, weak, elderly, victimized, abused and other citizens in D.C can now keep and bear arms thanks to the Supreme Court’s glorious ruling supposedly restoring the rights the government had mercilessly confiscated, creating the biggest crime-ridden phony “gun-free” zone in the nation, D.C. residents cannot obtain handguns, which are “the quintessential self defense weapon” according to the Court, thanks to federal law:
18 USC § 922(b) It shall be unlawful for any licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector to sell or deliver –
(3) any firearm to any person who the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in (or if the person is a corporation or other business entity, does not maintain a place of business in) the State in which the licensee’s place of business is located…
No word yet on whether dealers in adjacent Maryland and Virginia are willing to risk their business licenses and incur prison sentences, to sell legal firearms to residents of D.C. Officials in D.C. implied slightly that it would be OK, but they have no authority over BATFE, the agency that would make the arrests.
Virtue said,
July 23, 2008 at 6:42 am
Victory said,
Perhaps you might confine your remarks to subjects on which you either:
A. have some knowledge, or
B. if A, do not simply alter the facts to suit your agenda
The SCOTUS ruling says that weapons already owned may be registered. “Casual sale” (between owners living in the same state) is not regulated by Federal law at all, therefore anyone may sell his gun to another resident, or buy one - just not from a dealer (unless local law forbids it).
There also does not appear to be any prohibition from a DC resident applying for a BATF dealer license.
July 24, 2008 at 2:42 am