Gun Dealers in DC

[LedJedi]

http://www.gunblast.com/Freedom_500WE.htm

[NcongruNt]

http://www.gunblast.com/Freedom_500WE.htm

Wow. This picture and caption is what really cracked me up:

Author uses a Freedom Arms cross-draw
holster regularly, and considers it a great
combination of practicality and comfort.

[boomerang]

That just might get him thrown out of office by executive order or an act of Congress for contempt, not just of any court, but the highest in the land.

I don't know. I think throwing him out of an airplane over Iraq would be a better object lesson for other elected officials.

[HerbM]

That just might get him thrown out of office by executive order or an act of Congress for contempt, not just of any court, but the highest in the land.

I don't know. I think throwing him out of an airplane over Iraq would be a better object lesson for other elected officials.

Now that Heller won, maybe the NRA could restart the effort to just get Congress to override the entire DC gun control and even add CHL provisions.

(After all the NRA tried to do this to derail the Parker/Heller case.)

Now would be a good time to follow through...

[DParker]

I may have found an FFL gun dealer in DC but you will never guess who it is:

This has been known about and discussed on several gun forums for several months now. But it's still funny to read about.

[Captain Matt]

I may have found an FFL gun dealer in DC but you will never guess who it is:

This has been known about and discussed on several gun forums for several months now. But it's still funny to read about.

It looks like he has a Type 1 (dealer) not a Type 3 (C&R collector) FFL. I thought a dealer had to actually engage in the business as a dealer or gunsmith. If that's correct, does he actually sell or repair firearms in DC or did he obtain the FFL fraudulently? And if he obtained the FFL under false pretenses, why hasn't he been prosecuted?

[KBCraig]

Why would they have an FFL?

For the same reason Michael Moore is a life member of the NRA -- to make a mockery of it.

[KBCraig]

I think a 10-shot revolver would be the ideal "DC Special". Since the only "...and bear" that is allowed will be within the home, size isn't much of an issue. To keep the cylinder a reasonable size, a caliber like the new .327 would be just the ticket.

Oh, and I agree that a "revolver only" restriction will be struck down by the courts. I also agree that Fenty will try it, and everything else he can try, to obstruct the process and make gun ownership in DC as difficult as possible.

[DoubleJ]

anybody that shoots as fast as Jerry Miculek would make a semi-auto seem overkill!

[Liberty]

It's not clear there ARE any such dealers.

I cannot (so far) find any by Googling -- I suspect that there are none for the public.

Also, you must still REGISTER your firearm* but you cannot buy one out of state, and if you cannot buy one locally, Catch-22

*Mayor Fenty gave the police chief 21 days for "new regulations in accord with the decision." That doesn't mean they will be reasonable regulations.

Doesn't it strike anyone else a strange that to have the police write the laws? I always thought we were supposed to elect people to write our laws, and not anoint lawmakers. I guess its a bit to much to expect democracy to work in Washing D.C.
Maybe the chief is the only one who can be drugfree long enough to actually author real laws.

[USMC-COL]

Whatever lunatic restrictions may come out of DC, I think they should immediately be sued to start the lesson again until it sinks in or it sinks DC.

[jimlongley]

I can see a DC-special, a semi-automatic looking gun but where you have to pull the slide back manually to load the round, or where the trigger pull does the same as a double action revolver, loads the round, sets the hammer and then fires. I dunno, I see some gunsmiths having fun with loading mechanisms, I know I would if I were a gunsmith

I wonder what he, Fenty that is, would think about a Webley-Fosbury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley-Fos ... c_Revolver

[HerbM]

People are already working on the argument that today semi-autos are the most common manufactured and purchased firearms that this entire class cannot be banned.

It seems DC has a ridiculous definition of a "machine gun' which includes any semi-automatic for which a magazine EXISTS with more than 20 round capacity.

This actually means that a military issue 7-round 1911 is a machine gun (only in DC) since SOMEWHERE there exists a 20+ round mag for it.

Note to self: Remember 10-year old daughter rule when thinking of Fenty and magazines.

[boomerang]

The question of gun dealers in DC is a good one.

Texas residents can buy a rifle out of state from a dealer, but not from an individual. We can't legally buy a handgun in another state, not from a dealer and definitely not from individual. That's Federal law. Federal law that SCOTUS left standing in their ruling. If the Brady Bunch have the only FFL in DC, and they don't sell handguns, there's almost no way for a DC resident to legally receive a handgun. A handgun ban in effect but not technically violating the ruling.

Heller works as an armed security guard, so if he gets a handgun license from DC he may be able to take his work gun home. But what about the normal residents of DC?