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DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:13 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Not sure if this is the appropriate forum or not, but here it is...
Linkey
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- District residents can start registering their guns today. But at least one very high profile application was already rejected.
Dick Heller is the man who brought the lawsuit against the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit.
But when he tried to register his semi-automatic weapon, he says he was rejected. He says his gun has seven bullet clip. Heller says the City Council legislation allows weapons with fewer than eleven bullets in the clip. A spokesman for the DC Police says the gun was a bottom-loading weapon, and according to their interpretation, all bottom-loading guns are outlawed because they are grouped with machine guns.
Besides obtaining paperwork to buy new handguns, residents also can register firearms they've had illegally under a 180-day amnesty period.
Though residents will be allowed to begin applying for handgun permits, city officials have said the entire process could take weeks or months.
So... they permit 10 round magazines, but not pistols that load those magazines through the bottom. Just which 10 round magazines did they have in mind?
DC Police Firearms Info site
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:20 pm
by LedJedi
here we go again... I wonder if Heller has already filed suit again?
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:21 pm
by The Annoyed Man
LedJedi wrote:here we go again... I wonder if Heller has already filed suit again?
I hope he does. It will be a perfect test of the "reasonableness" of the DC laws in the first place.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:04 pm
by Xander
According to
Of Arms and the Law he's going to be back tomorrow to register a revolver.
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/ ... er_sho.php
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:20 pm
by BigDan
Once again. +1 for Living in Texas! ;-]
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:41 pm
by Mike1951
And what of the semi auto that he tried to license?
Isn't it now an illegal handgun by DC ordinances?
Wonder if they gave any thought to arresting Heller?
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:55 pm
by agbullet2k1
Found this on another (non gun related, and mostly liberal) forum, and couldn't word it any better.
Churchill2004 wrote:I'm actually pleased that DC is being more or less openly defiant. That means more easy court victories to build up precedent to beat other states/localities over the head with while we're waiting for Incorporation.
Let them whine all they want, they're just making it easier for us quicker.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:13 pm
by Mark F
Unbelievable...
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:34 pm
by Frost
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:43 pm
by Frost
Ok, according to Xanders link hellers hand gun in question was a .38 revolver so the decision does not apply. If at least one of the plaintiffs did not have a semi-auto then i will not be happy.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:07 am
by ELB
Mike1951 wrote:And what of the semi auto that he tried to license?
Isn't it now an illegal handgun by DC ordinances?
Wonder if they gave any thought to arresting Heller?
According to a different article I read (which I do not have at my fingertips), Heller's handguns are stored in Maryland, and his attorney (not Gura et al, different guy) advised him to NOT take his handgun(s) to the police station the first time. Since semi-autos have been, and apparently still are, illegal in DC, I'm sure that's why his lawyer told him to go without it. His lawyer also accompanied him.
by Frost on Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:43 pm
Ok, according to Xanders link hellers hand gun in question was a .38 revolver so the decision does not apply. If at least one of the plaintiffs did not have a semi-auto then i will not be happy.
The same article I reference above said Heller has a .45 semi-auto and a .22 revolver. He first tried to register the semi-auto on the first day of registration. The article said he would come back the next day to register the revolver instead. Note D.C.'s new version of the law limits residents to registering only one handgun in the first 90 days.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:57 am
by dukalmighty
I would love to see all the smart people find employment elsewhere and leave DC to the people who think police can save them and gangsters who rape plunder and pillage at will,
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:32 am
by tboesche
dukalmighty wrote:I would love to see all the smart people find employment elsewhere and leave DC to the people who think police can save them
We already live in Texas.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:53 am
by jimlongley
The Annoyed Man wrote:
So... they permit 10 round magazines, but not pistols that load those magazines through the bottom. Just which 10 round magazines did they have in mind?
DC Police Firearms Info site
Probably broomhandle Mausers, Radoms, and a few of the others that load from the top or side.
Actually, since DC has pretty much announced that ALL semi-autos are banned, it would be interesting to see someone try to register one of the above and see how DC tries to avoid it.
Re: DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:58 am
by Afff_667
I would love to see all the smart people find employment elsewhere and leave DC to the people who think police can save them and gangsters who rape plunder and pillage at will,
Sounds good to me...leave the politicians where they are....
