Little-Acorn
07-17-2008, 01:26 PM
It's a pretty common method of surreptitious "gun control". If the courts say you have to allow people to have guns, you say, "Fine, but we'll just require them to apply for permits first." Then you start rejecting the permits for every excuse under the sun.
The guy at the center of the recently-decided Supreme Court case DC v. Heller, applied for his permit, for a handgun that holds 7 cartridges in the clip. It was probably a 1911 .45 pistol, developed in that year and one of the most common handguns in the country. It fires one shot every time you pull the trigger, as most handguns do.
DC rejected his application, and informed him the reason was, that gun was a "machine gun".
Boy, the liberal gun-grabbers who run that town, are trying every excuse in the books, to disobey the 2nd amendment's clear language AND the Supreme Court's clear order.
Maybe we should divert the National Guard troops that Chicago's mayor says he needs to control crime in Chicago, and send them to DC instead, to control the DC City Council?
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http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74036&catid=158
DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted By: Daniel Guzman 2 hrs ago
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.
The guy at the center of the recently-decided Supreme Court case DC v. Heller, applied for his permit, for a handgun that holds 7 cartridges in the clip. It was probably a 1911 .45 pistol, developed in that year and one of the most common handguns in the country. It fires one shot every time you pull the trigger, as most handguns do.
DC rejected his application, and informed him the reason was, that gun was a "machine gun".
Boy, the liberal gun-grabbers who run that town, are trying every excuse in the books, to disobey the 2nd amendment's clear language AND the Supreme Court's clear order.
Maybe we should divert the National Guard troops that Chicago's mayor says he needs to control crime in Chicago, and send them to DC instead, to control the DC City Council?
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http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74036&catid=158
DC Rejects Handgun Application
Posted By: Daniel Guzman 2 hrs ago
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.