Keep your powder dry
Gee, thanks for your “permission” to exercise our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, fellas:
Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council, along with Attorney General Peter Nickles and Police Chief Cathy Lanier, announced the details of early legislation that will regulate the registration and storage of handguns in post-Heller D.C.
“We continue to take every step we can to minimize handgun violence in the District,” said Mayor Fenty. “We must prevent handguns from falling into the wrong hands or being misused, while allowing District residents to exercise their Second Amendment rights under the Heller ruling.”
Here’s what they’re proposing:
- Allowing an exception for handgun ownership for self-defense use inside the home.
- If you want to keep a handgun in your home, the MPD will have to perform ballistic testing on it before it can be legally registered.
- There will be a limit to one handgun per person for the first 90 days after the legislation becomes law.
- Firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and disassembled, and secured with either a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. The new law will allow an exception for a firearm while it is being used against an intruder in the home.
- Residents who legally register handguns in the District will not be required to have licenses to carry them inside their own homes.
Hey, here’s an idea: let’s require the cops to keep their guns disassembled and locked away at all times too, with an exemption allowed only while it’s being fired wildly at some perp during the commission of a crime. After all, if it’s really safety we’re concerned about here, what’s good for the citizenry at large ought to be good for them, too.
Like I just said below: these liberal/fascist would-be dictators will never, ever stop trying to exert total control over you — for your own good, of course — and the Constitution be damned.
It’s going to take a second American Revolution to get their hands off our throats. That’s really what it comes down to at this point.
(Also via Insty)
Update! Ace says:
Note that while we conservatives are expected to conform with the diktats of the court without question, liberals feel no such compulsion.
Funny how that works, ain’t it? Note also that while said resistance on the part of liberals would likely be lauded as moral, courageous, and even heroic, for people so unenlightened as to believe that the Constitution actually, y’know, means what it says, that would be savagery and lawlessness.
But maybe I’m just not sophisticated enough to grasp such a highly nuanced position.
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Umm...seriously, WTF? Does this mean that the magazine of a semi-auto can't be in the well? How do you disassemble a revolver?
All they have done is decide that "ok, you can HAVE a gun, but you can't USE it."
Gun control truly is more about control than it is about guns.
If the District repealed all of its gun laws and let people carry at their wills, the District would be a safer place.
Wait, uhm, wasn't this one of the specifically addressed components OF this DC insanity? That you could actually keep a loaded firearm in your home FOR home defense? You're probably right:
*sigh* Unless they actually get all the legal voters to stand the fuck up and get rid of the liberal loons.
The result of their screwing around is that less people will decide to register and most will keep their guns loaded.
These idiots are waiting for Obama to get elected and save them. These are all delaying tactics.