Rogue
7/20/2008, 12:58 PM
:mad: :mad: :mad:
WTF are they thinking? DC officials should be held in contempt. Or something. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700621_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008071702695&pos=)
http://dc.gov/mayor/news/release.asp?id=1333&mon=200807
The proposed legislation has four main components:
Continues to ban handguns in most places but creates an exception for self-defense in the home. The handgun ban remains in effect, except for use in self-defense within the home. Sawed-off shotguns, machine guns and short-barreled rifles are still prohibited.
Requires the Metropolitan Police Department to perform ballistic testing on handguns and makes such testing a registration requirement. The Chief of Police will require ballistics tests of any handgun submitted for registration to determine if it is stolen or has been used in a crime. Also, to serve as many residents as possible, the Chief will limit registrations to one handgun per person for the first 90 days after the legislation becomes law.
Clarifies the safe-storage and trigger-lock requirements. The legislation modifies existing law to clarify that firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and either disassembled secured with a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. An exception is made for a firearm while it is being used against reasonably perceived threat of immediate harm to a person within
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3980
...This means that a gun owner must keep his gun in an inoperable condition right up until the moment he realizes there is an actual threat. At that moment and at that moment only may he load, reassemble, unlock, or take out of a safe his gun.
Even if you are in the anti-gun crowd this probably makes no sense.
Sure, you can have a gun, but it can't be accessible or operable until you need to use it for self-defense. :confused:
WTF are they thinking? DC officials should be held in contempt. Or something. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700621_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008071702695&pos=)
http://dc.gov/mayor/news/release.asp?id=1333&mon=200807
The proposed legislation has four main components:
Continues to ban handguns in most places but creates an exception for self-defense in the home. The handgun ban remains in effect, except for use in self-defense within the home. Sawed-off shotguns, machine guns and short-barreled rifles are still prohibited.
Requires the Metropolitan Police Department to perform ballistic testing on handguns and makes such testing a registration requirement. The Chief of Police will require ballistics tests of any handgun submitted for registration to determine if it is stolen or has been used in a crime. Also, to serve as many residents as possible, the Chief will limit registrations to one handgun per person for the first 90 days after the legislation becomes law.
Clarifies the safe-storage and trigger-lock requirements. The legislation modifies existing law to clarify that firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and either disassembled secured with a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. An exception is made for a firearm while it is being used against reasonably perceived threat of immediate harm to a person within
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3980
...This means that a gun owner must keep his gun in an inoperable condition right up until the moment he realizes there is an actual threat. At that moment and at that moment only may he load, reassemble, unlock, or take out of a safe his gun.
Even if you are in the anti-gun crowd this probably makes no sense.
Sure, you can have a gun, but it can't be accessible or operable until you need to use it for self-defense. :confused: