Gun Bill Could Strip D.C. Of Control

[ryanmercer]

Congress plans to take up a bill this week that would repeal the District's gun-registration requirements and make it easier for residents to legally buy semiautomatic weapons, raising alarm among city officials that the measure would effectively end local gun control.

washingtonpost.com




Gun Bill Dangerous, D.C. Chief Tells House - washingtonpost.com

Let me say, I detest the above slant on it... "D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier assailed a new bill yesterday that would eliminate most of the District's gun laws, telling a congressional panel that the measure would allow residents to carry loaded semiautomatic rifles in the streets, creating a nightmare scenario for homeland security officials."

 

[Feign]

Good deal. Make 'em sweat.

 

[VUPDblue]

telling a congressional panel that the measure would allow residents to carry loaded semiautomatic rifles in the streets, creating a nightmare scenario for homeland security officials

That's perfectly legal here, but when was the last time you saw it happening....?

 

[Episcopus]

Open carry rifle picnic! Oustside the Capitol. Could be interesting

 

[snake-doctor]

I read somewhere that the Heller decision would make allowance for DC officals to ban automatics and only allow the ownership of revolvers. IF that is true and IF it did indeed happen and held up to challenges, I foresee most major cities enacting the same types of control.

 

[AFA1CY]

I believe it is widely held that the SCOUTS decision will be battled out in courts for years to come. Both pro and con 2A.

 

[Bill of Rights]

I read somewhere that the Heller decision would make allowance for DC officals to ban automatics and only allow the ownership of revolvers. IF that is true and IF it did indeed happen and held up to challenges, I foresee most major cities enacting the same types of control.

They're halfway there. DC officials are already continuing to ban semi-automatic handguns.

Some have said here that DC refers to such firearms as "machine guns", doubtless because the oral arguments addressed full-auto firearms and the final ruling addressed the "in common use at the time" argument from Miller (which followed NFA 1934, which made full-autos fall out of common use over the next 74 years due to high taxes and oppressive regulations-this is like restricting ownership of metal forks and then saying that since no one is using metal forks, there must be little need for them, thus it is acceptable to continue forcing everyone to use plastic sporks. Were it not for the bad law, the metal fork (or back on topic, full auto firearm) would be in much more common usage.

Fenty apparently doesn't care what the Supreme Court says. What's the old (Stalin?) quip? "The Pope? How many divisions does he command?"

Blessings,
B

 

[Dogman]

I could see them allowing (not because they want to) semi-automatics with limited magazines capacity. Trying to hold onto as much power as they can.

The D.C. Chief has her nose so far up the Mayors ass every time he stops her nose gets broken.

 

[BloodEclipse]

The D.C. Chief has her nose so far up the Mayors ass every time he stops her nose gets broken.

Ohh is that what that is? I just thought she had a funny looking hat.

 

[ryanmercer]

I want to know how she can be a good cop, even a decorative one... with french-tipped finger*claw*nails...

 

[ATM]

"...the measure would allow residents to carry loaded semiautomatic rifles in the streets, creating a nightmare scenario for homeland security officials."

...and street criminals.

Our homeland is more secure with a gun behind every blade of grass.

 

[ryanmercer]

...and street criminals.

Our homeland is more secure with a gun behind every blade of grass.

Wasn't in Jefferson that said
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

I know it was... but heh... that means we are several generations due for a revolution. After 9/11 I got a bit of hope that America would get over this tree-hugging love-everyone crap and remember that it isn't the Government's job to protect us, it is OUR job to protect us.

If I had it my way, I'd set up a portion of the U.S. and relocate all of the anti-gun, anti-standing up for yourself, anti-anything good people on one giant reservation, and tell the world they are not protected and are fair game.

 

[Bill of Rights]

...and street criminals.

Our homeland is more secure with a gun behind every blade of grass.

True that!

Wasn't in Jefferson that said
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

I know it was... but heh... that means we are several generations due for a revolution. After 9/11 I got a bit of hope that America would get over this tree-hugging love-everyone crap and remember that it isn't the Government's job to protect us, it is OUR job to protect us.

If I had it my way, I'd set up a portion of the U.S. and relocate all of the anti-gun, anti-standing up for yourself, anti-anything good people on one giant reservation, and tell the world they are not protected and are fair game.

We are several generations overdue for a revolution. I don't want to see one, but we're overdue for it. Our Founders started revolting over a tax on tea that they could choose to drink or not. We are taxed perhaps upwards of 75% of our incomes when you figure federal, state, and local income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, etc., and all we do is take it and get assessed more. I repeat, I do not want to see a revolution of a violent nature, but I see one of some kind brewing, most likely starting the night that Obama loses the election. In the (IMHO) unlikely event he wins the election, I would suspect the revolt may hold off until he starts ordering gun confiscations, but that's only if we don't have another Rodney King-style riot because he's voted in.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

--John F. Kennedy

I think that perhaps that may depend upon how one defines "peaceful revolution". If it is defined as electing a socialist and/or communist to the highest office in our country and the free world, this may be true, but only to those who would define that as a good thing. For those of us for who do not do so, the peaceful revolution is accomplished by voting the Constitution-that is, by voting the incumbent, "politics as usual" crowd out of office and insisting upon candidates for election supporting that founding document.



Blessings,
B

 

[indyjoe]

Wasn't in Jefferson that said
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

But what sucks is that last generation got the sexual revolution and it looks like ours has to be a real one.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

--John F. Kennedy

Good quote.