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« on: July 18, 2008, 05:05:06 PM »

source: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74036&catid=158

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.


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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2008, 05:29:52 PM »



It sickens me that a group of people sat down to come with with such a lame-ass reason to continue to deny citizens rights.
Someone who thinks a bottom-loading gun is the same as a machine gun has no business making any decision regarding firearms legislation.  In fact, they really should leave any decisions harder than what clothes to put on in the morning to more qualified individuals.
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2008, 01:29:02 AM »

It sickens me that a group of people sat down to come with with such a lame-ass reason to continue to deny citizens rights.
Someone who thinks a bottom-loading gun is the same as a machine gun has no business making any decision regarding firearms legislation.  In fact, they really should leave any decisions harder than what clothes to put on in the morning to more qualified individuals.

That's going a bit far, I mean do you think those people can pick out their own clothes?

"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."

He should have held it up-side-down, that should have fooled them.
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2008, 02:29:18 AM »

http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/07/18/How-D.C.-gangsters-get-around-the-bottomloading-machine-gun-ban.aspx

I'm wondering if people are going to start using weapons that are belt fed from the side now.
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2008, 05:22:04 AM »

Its very rare to find people that can think of decent things other than tabloid news or how much $5 starbux crappola they can dump down their throat.  Or how much time they got for a coffee ahem bathroom ahem lunch break that continues to get smaller by the day.ully

Well, people will or will not eventually learn...

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