Take Your Court Decision and Shove It!

So, Heller v DC should have driven a stake through the vampire’s heart in our nation’s capitol. But those cunning criminal-abetting bureaucrats in one of the most crime-riddled cities in the nation are still going to make it as insanely difficult as possible for law-abiding citizens.

Two weeks ago the Supremes said that Washington’s law denying handgun ownership was in conflict with the clear mandate of the Second Amendment. The right to “keep and bear” was an individual right and the associated ability to defend ones home and family in America was inviolate. But, today the government of the district showed their level of disrespect for the court with the sluggish commencement of registration.

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The first applicant, Mr. Heller of the court case, was turned away because he didn’t bring his illegal gun with him. The next applicant had to have his gun turned over to the police thug at the door. Now, take a gander at what they require:

Bring the gun in. Turn it over to them. By the way, nothing but wheel-guns allowed—you know the ones that shoot once per trigger pull, not those nasty semi-automatics that shoot once per trigger pull. Those modern semi-autos are still verboten in DC. Get finger-printed. Get the gun inspected. Get the gun fired for ballistic finger-printing; a dubious concept at best when expanded to a database rather than one-on-one matching. Wait a couple of weeks for a FBI background check. (I guess that allows the bureaucrat to inform his homies that your gun is out of the house this month.) Then pay a big fee—per gun, of course and renewable, of course.

This seems to be in contravention of the existing National Agency Check that the owner already must have complied with to buy the gun in the first place. And violates the portion of that law which demands that government not compile databases of gun owners.

Then, in what may be the epitome of stupidity, keep it at home, locked, empty, disassembled except in case of emergency when it can then be unfurled. The definition of emergency always has included “unexpected” in my book. So, you hear the break-in, you get up, go to the safe, unlock the box, assemble the gun, find the ammo, load and then respond. That’s probably faster than waiting for a police response, but not faster than the goblin coming down the hall and killing you while you fumble under duress.

Don’t forget, this is an amnesty period. The unrecognized truth here is that these folks had the guns all along, but they are the law-abiding ones. Think this is complying with Heller? Think this is what the Framers meant with the Second Amendment? Think this is keeping guns off the street and crime down? Wanna buy a neat bridge?