DC Still Playing Games Issuing Permits

[Keith B]

Really not a state, but DC is still playing all the angles to make it virtually impossible to get a concealed carry permit.

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[joe817]

Clerk: Uhhhh, the law requires 16 hrs of classroom training, & 2 hrs of range time.
Applicant: Well where do I go to sign up for a class?
Clerk: Well, ummm, ahhh, errr we really don't have any instructors signed up at this time. It costs $400 for the instructors license, and no one has signed up to become instructors.
Applicant: So not only do I have to PROVE a need for a chl, that my life is in imminent danger, AND take a class from instructors that don't exist, than I'm good to go?
Clerk: Wullll, I guess so. After you get approval from the sheriff, we can start processing your application.

NOTE: All the above is my take from the video. Keith, you're right. D.C. is making it virtually impossible to get a chl there.

[MeMelYup]

Clerk: Uhhhh, the law requires 16 hrs of classroom training, & 2 hrs of range time.
Applicant: Well where do I go to sign up for a class?
Clerk: Well, ummm, ahhh, errr we really don't have any instructors signed up at this time. It costs $400 for the instructors license, and no one has signed up to become instructors.
Applicant: So not only do I have to PROVE a need for a chl, that my life is in imminent danger, AND take a class from instructors that don't exist, than I'm good to go?
Clerk: Wullll, I guess so. After you get approval from the sheriff, we can start processing your application.

NOTE: All the above is my take from the video. Keith, you're right. D.C. is making it virtually impossible to get a chl there.

And if you have a CHL from a state and are visiting you still need to apply for a D.C. Carry permit because they don't recogenize out of city CHL's.

[paxton25]

I was in Virginia a few weeks ago and it was the first time I had taken my hadngun with me on a trip like that. Went pretty smooth, I did go to DC right when all of this went down but I decided to leave my pistol at the hotel since I wasn't sure about what would happen. I hope they get this straightened out soon.

[Keith B]

I was in Virginia a few weeks ago and it was the first time I had taken my hadngun with me on a trip like that. Went pretty smooth, I did go to DC right when all of this went down but I decided to leave my pistol at the hotel since I wasn't sure about what would happen. I hope they get this straightened out soon.

There is no reciprocity with DC, so you would have been arrested if found carrying.

[paxton25]

yea, probably, that's why I didn't carry. But I was specifically referring to the statements by law enforcement that they wouldn't arrest anyone legally carrying a firearm, seemed too nebulous to me.

[rtschl]

Let's hope the judge grants the permanent injunction after the hearing on Nov 20th.

[Texgun]

Does anyone have information on this issue? It seems to have fallen completely off the radar.

[mr1337]

Not good.

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“You have a mayor who hates guns,” she said. “If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

[K.Mooneyham]

Well, if its any indication, the new Mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, stated to a crowd there that “You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”

Looks like someone beat me to the punch, sorry about a double post.

[mojo84]

Very thankful DC is stuck with this. I have friends that recently moved to Texas from DC. They said they felt like they just escaped from Sodom or Gomorrah.

[rbwhatever1]

Washington DC. The Bastion of Liberty. The Heartbeat of a Free People. The Defender of the U.S. Constitution and Enforcer of the Bill of Rights, from Sea to Shining Sea.

Washington DC is a disgusting entity of putridness.