Rusty Luck
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Wow, thats a lot of hassle. I'm glad you got your guns though.
(and even more glad I live in Texas..)
(and even more glad I live in Texas..)
Doesn't DC still have a pretty high gun crime rate even though they go through all this trouble? Maybe its just another way for them to make a little more money?
By their standards though, which one of those tasks protected citizens from gun crime?
The DC-legal rifle I'm really waiting on is this Ares SCR that's supposedly coming out soon; I'm on the pre-order list
Overall I don't find DC a particularly dangerous city for me, though there are areas I wouldn't linger in after dark, or would meet a female friend at the subway stop rather than have her walk over by herself. But DC has gentrified massively in the last five years, and overall the crime here isn't a patch on what it was in the 1980s when the city was in Detroit-style collapse.
Maybe if you stay on the Mall. The demographics, according to the 2012 census, works against you.
In my view, Emily Miller, who had obviously never registered a handgun in NJ or Md or a dozen places which are MORE difficult or time consuming, did a huge disservice to potential DC gun owners given DC is easier and faster than a number of places, espc in the NE US.
Respectfully, with the exception of the navy yard, it isn't just the perps, but the murder victims are almost all themselves persons gang affiliation or serious rap sheets, even at late teen ages. In suburban and rural areas about 80% of murder victims are criminals, and in US cities about 90% are.Maybe if you stay on the Mall. The demographics, according to the 2012 census, works against you.
I am not talking about vs Idaho, Georgia, Tenn or Virginia, but comared to the NE US. I lived and had registered firearms in NJ and have friends with firearms in Maryland. Both are more involved and take longer to get a handgun than in DC and that is a stone cold fact.I don't necessarily agree. She chronicled her journey, following the instructions of DC MPD and other "experts." Her experience in registering a firearm in DC was hardly unique during the time she did it.
Things have changed a bit - the Wash Times might want to run a piece chronicling how the registration process works now, and changes from just a year or two ago.
DC2 said:IN NJ an Maryland you will wait on average from 60 to 90 days to get a handgun.
Seriously I doubt you know anyone who has registered a handgun in Maryland in the past couple of years for you to doubt that. go to mdshooters and ask.Look, I don't know what your agenda is, but that's a blatantly false statement.
And the last post to that thread was a year ago.
Maryland and every other state in the union was overwhelmed with people buying guns last year. Other states that mandated state-run background checks had significant delays, too. Colorado comes to mind.
Maryland passed no law making wait times longer. And unless you know something I don't, those delays are over and the waiting period is back to 7 days.
Instead of using NCIS, Pennsylvania runs it's own instant check system PICS (Pennsylvania Instant Check System). It's subject to outages. Now when the Pennsylvania State Police bring that system down for some reason, does that mean PA is anti-gun, too?
Point of fact, a workmate of mine in MD picked up his firearm a couple of weeks ago in early August - he got a call on Day 8 from the dealer, and he popped by a day or two later to pick up his pistol.
This was ended a couple of years ago, and I wrote the NRAILA two years ago about the change yet they keep this statement on their siteAmmunition may be bought only for the caliber or gauge of a firearm registered to the buyer.
No, for over two years it is a free, 45 minute online testcomplete a firearms training course conducted by a state-certified firearms instructor or a certified military firearms instructor that includes one hour of firing training and 4 hours of classroom instruction
"I had to take an 18-question test on DC gun law, missed one, but otherwise quite easy (and open-book)."
OK ... so how did you miss a question on an OPEN BOOK test? (lol) Just joshing!
Cop: Hmmmm... Well, I'm gonna go ahead and allow this,