Despite Court’s OK, D.C. Residents Unable to Legally Register Handguns

It’s been almost three years since the United States Supreme Court overturned Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns, but residents of the District remain unable to register guns in the city.  Why? A “temporary, de facto ban” is in now in place after the sole individual who facilitated handgun ownership in the nation’s capital stopped accepting registration orders.

WTOP reports:

Since the lifting of the handgun ban in June 2008, Charles Sykes has processed more than 1,000 handguns for District residents. Sykes tells WTOP he’s stopped taking orders for now.  “I’ve lost my lease,” Sykes said in a phone interview. “I’ll take care of the customers who already placed orders, but I don’t want to take any more until I know where I will reopen.”Despite Courts OK, D.C. Residents Unable to Legally Register Handguns

Sykes is the sole proprietor of C S Exchange, the only licensed firearm dealer in the city that will transfer guns for individuals. Sykes doesn’t sell the guns — there are no gun stores in D.C. His company facilitates the transfer of guns from out of state stores into the District for a fee of $125 per gun.

Federal law prohibits individuals from buying a handgun outside D.C. and then bringing it into the District. That transfer has to be done by someone with a Federal Firearms License.

Michelle Lane lives on Capitol Hill, and wanted a gun for protection and target practice. She bought two guns in Virginia: a Ruger LCR revolver and a Kahr K9 Elite 9mm. After buying them, she found out she couldn’t have them shipped into the city.  “It’s not fair,” she tells WTOP. “I followed the law. Criminals bring guns into the city. It’s frustrating.”

It could be weeks before Sykes finds a new location for his store and even then, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) requires 30 days advance notice of a move, followed by an additional 60 days to review and approve the location.  Until then, D.C. residents are out of luck.

“The city government of Washington, D.C. has a responsibility to make sure that every resident of D.C. can exercise their constitutional rights. And one of those constitutional rights is the individual to have a right to bear arms,” Sen. Charles Grassley said Friday.  It’s “absolutely wrong” that D.C. resident can’t currently legally purchase a gun, he added. “Let the city government do the licensing if you don’t have a licensed dealer.”

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  • GetUpOnTheWheel
    Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:51am

    Rights delayed are rights denied.

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  • thomas242007
    Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:43am

    Obama doesnt want people in his district to own guns, because he know hes a very unpopular president and hes making people extremly angry, its kind of ironic i think hes participating in project gunnrunner where they “Walk” i mean give high calibre guns to the cartels, i not talking about 9mm im talking about 50 cal rifles and ar15′s and here theyre trying to take our guns away what the F right

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  • SUPERREDHAWK 9.5
    Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:30am

    I am traveling (have to travel) to DC next weekend with my family and would love some 2nd Amendment rights. If congress could get around to making all CCP’s reciprocel this week, I would feel much safer during our family excursion. My daughters deserve that protection.

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    • Atlappraiser
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:50am

      Carry and keep your weapon concealed everywhere you travel. It’s like speeding or running a stop sign/red-light, it’s only illegal if your caught, right?

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  • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
    Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:23am

    Nothing new, have you heard about Chicago allowing it either?

    Courts are only listened to in a Constitutional Republic, we are now a quasi centrally controlled autocracy. Or you could define it as a crony capitalist, state capitalist, aka communist society. Notice that in a communist society the rights of property are abandoned, central control is installed, and law is dished out according to your position in power.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:05am

    I would not register any gun if I owned one. If a criminal does not have to register, then neither do I. I‘d tell the gov’t to stick it where the sun down’t shine. It is my constitutional right to bear arms and the Constitution nevers says that I have to register them. A city ordinance can’t trump the Constitution. I think I‘d start sueing the B’s.

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  • publicuss
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:46pm

    “Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so many of the territory as they inhabit.” – Abraham Lincoln, January 12, 1848.

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  • GadsdenPatriot
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:36pm

    Regulation does not trump the Constitution. Registration leads to confiscation. Regardless of what government says the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. ******** don‘t seem to understand they aren’t even allowed to INFRINGE on our rights. This kind of playing around with technicalities IS AN INFRINGEMENT!

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:27pm

    Buy a ten gauge shotgun and make thugs respect you at the point of of this big bore.

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  • Mountain Scout
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:57pm

    Americans need to recognize that the 2nd amendment is a bell weather of sorts on where your government is headed and where your rights are being eroded. I cannot envision our forefathers having the foresight to understand this but call it blessed inspiration or whatever, the 2nd amendment is an easy to see, easy to understand, measure of your freedom. Libs hate it and with good cause. Even if you don’t own a gun, please understand the fundamental principals laid out in the 2nd amendment. Yep, it’s a really big deal…

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  • Atlappraiser
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:56pm

    I live in Georgia. Almost everyone I know has a concealed carry permit and multiple guns. I dare the Govt. to even attempt to take our guns away. Off topic, but I could see Libs trying to do it. If it ever dies occur, I suggest sending your best out Dems, I have friends that are military trained snipers. That would be entertaining. But of course, will never happen.

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:02am

      My husband & I live about 1/2 mile from the gun store/shooting range…everyone that works there, as well as a great number who go there to shoot, have an understanding that if anyone were to “try” & take our guns, we’ll all meet up at the store & do whatever it takes to stop it. I don’t see that happening here though b/c we live in a military town & MOST military members are pro 2nd Amendment & a good number are also oathkeepers.

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  • Nigel2
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:50pm

    Proof once again the rule of law means nothing to Obama’s administration. He is the law in his own mind.

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  • hidden_lion
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:44pm

    Just buy the gun elsewhere and bring it in yourself, don’t flash it around. Federal law can’t infringe on your right to own a gun, the court upheld that. People who like their freedoms should move to states that support and defend those freedoms. Leave DC, New York, CA, etc… now, while you are still allowed to pick where you live.

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  • DevotedDad
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:43pm

    Any notion that a full fledged ban is not going to be implemented soon would be rather naive. I recently attempted to purchase a shotgun and I was told that the FBI placed a “hold” on the purchase. No explanation given. I had to wait over 2 months to get my money back and was told that I was “denied” and no reason would be given.

    So, the next option would be to appeal, which of course I did.

    After being forced to wait over a month for the application from the Department of Justice, I was sent a letter and a fingerprint card and again told that I was “denied” without any reason being given but I could appeal by having my fingerprints taken at the local police station.

    (Anyone seeing a problem yet – Hello…you are denied with no explanation, then forced to turn in prints like a criminal, in order to legally purchase a weapon).

    Well, guess what?

    5 months later and there is still no response by the Department of Justice nor has any reason been given on why I am denied in the first place.

    Calls to the DOJ result in being told that they are still “investigating”.

    Investigating, or perhaps just delaying as long as possible to ensure that the process is impossible to comply with?

    This is in New York.

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    • pappy
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:44pm

      Wow…. Sounds like the gun laws really suck rocks in NY. I’m glad I moved to Fla. 34 years ago. In this state, wanna buy a gun…. Go buy it & bring it home. The gun shows are great for buying privately and not having to report any of the sales. Yet and, as long as it’s a private sale.
      I bought a used police shotgun at a show from a deaer. It took 45 minutes for the phone call to FDLE for a back ground check. I then bought 2 Glock 9 mm’s from a private seller. It took 4 minutes & I put them in the car & left. Not to worry though. The gov’t is doing everything they can to make it difficult, if not impossible. If they had their way, I’d have to make a mean face to scare off a bad guy in a break in.

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 8:53am

      Wow, sounds like you need to get out of NY. I have a firearms license in GA & as a result, the gun buying process takes only a few minutes (the whole process of getting a license only took two weeks here & it’s good for open or concealed carry). Maybe you need to move south, we can always use additional conservative patriots for when it all goes to hell.

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    • drago
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:49am

      @Devoteddad
      My son has purchased 3 handguns and a shotgun withen the last year.Each purchase was held up for between 3 days, to 2 weeks.I have purchased 1 handgun, and a M4A3, not once did they put a hold on my purchase.Funny thing is, he’s a liberal, and im ultra conservitive, go figure.

      By the way, i live in Texas, wich like the old slogan the tourist bureau used to use, “Texas, its a whole other country”……

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    • 3Bigdogs
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:25am

      It sounds like you’re the exception not the rule…You mention you are in NY…Is that New York City or New York State — the difference is night and day when it comes to firearms…

      I’m in Central New York, and we have no problems up here obtaining firearms…Granted, New York State is pretty tough with issuing pistol permits, but they’re not impossible to get…As far as buying a rifle or shotgun — piece of cake…I know a lot of gun owners, and I don’t know of anyone denied while trying to buy a rifle of shot gun…Sounds like you pissed somebody off…

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  • TelepromoterNChief
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:37pm

    I do not recall Jesus setting up a website.

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    • essence428
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:47pm

      Now that was funny!

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:16pm

      One opportunity to repent and be saved appears to be fleeting sometimes, if the chance come again grasp it and never let go.
      Some bud head was trying to “sell stuff” in a post, instead I offered him a real salvation, then his post got yanked and my post remained behind, so I requested my own post be pulled because it wasn’t relevant to this story. End mystery.

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  • TelepromoterNChief
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:36pm

    They need to stop you from being educated.
    Your voice needs to be silenced.
    You sure as hell do not need a gun.
    This is the hope and change AmeriKa voted for in 2008.

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  • neverending
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:30pm

    Don’t forget that it appears we have a bastard in chief that neither he nor anyone around him pays any attention to the laws. You simply just ignore it. Rules and regulations mean absolutely nothing.

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:16pm

    You have to be an illegal mexican to get approved . Americans need not apply

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:15pm

    HEY FOX – STOP WITH THE “ROYAL WEDDING” – NOBODY GIVES A CRAP WHAT ELTON JOHN HAS TO SAY……

    Sorry – I couldn’t stop myself

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:52pm

      All I wanted to see was the time when they took their vows (to see if Kate got William’s name string recited correctly) and to see Kate’s wedding dress. That didn’t take long.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:10pm

      @Showtime
      Did you get my email?
      I can’t for the life of me discover why that type of Royal affair draws so much attention. But I‘ve a resentment against the Royals so I couldn’t care, except to wish them well, today!

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:11pm

      I mentioned it to my wife; then SHE told me all about it.

      Sheesh……………………

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:12pm

      I told her the day before.

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  • FLyoverman
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:15pm

    The Rule of Law means nothing to Progressive Marxists.

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  • GayDem4Beck
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:13pm

    More BS standing in the way of our rights.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Your name sucks

      Report Post » riseandshine  
    • Atlappraiser
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Seriously riseandshine? I don’t know them, but would you seriously have a problem with a gay democrat that supports Beck?

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:37pm

      RISESHINE – Could you at least try to act like a human? Thanks.

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  • 5410amh
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:11pm

    Apperantly Washington DC didn’t get the memo from the SUPREME COURT. Granted the supreme court isn’t much of a court anyway. I love my guns.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 1:49am

      Yeah, I’m deeply disappointed in the court system. A crying shame.

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:08pm

    I smell the stench of the DOJ

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 8:25am

      No, my friend.

      That foul, insidious stench comes straight from the Cass Sunstein.playbook.

      First a nudge.

      Then a shove.

      Then a boot stomping on a human face.

      Forever.

      Unless WE do the work and take on the risks to take back our Grand Experiment from those who wish to extinguish the idea that Man can govern himself and live in Freedom.

      After so many have suffered untold horrors and given their own and their loved one’s lives and sacred honor to preserve and protect our Freedom and the idea that Man can rule himself without tyranny, how can any honorable American, in so enjoying the fruits of those myriad sacrifices for themselves and their families, do less?

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:07pm

    First they took my neighbors gun – and I didn’t say anything….

    Take a look at Switzerland – The Swiss army has long been a militia trained and structured to rapidly respond against foreign aggression. Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20 in the Rekrutenschule (German for “recruit school”), the initial boot camp, after which Swiss men remain part of the “militia” in reserve capacity until age 30 (age 34 for officers).As of 2007, Switzerland had a population of about 7,600,000. This would put the rate of killings or attempted killings with firearms at about one for every quarter million residents yearly.

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    • WestOfThePecos
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:13pm

      This exactly why Germany did not invade the Swiss.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:50pm

      I lived in Switzerland for a while. Everyone of military age has to keep their weapons at home when they are not on active service. A friend showed me his. SERIOUS military weapons. You would have to be pretty stupid to break into a Swiss house as they all have a ton of firepower immediately to hand and they have been very well trained in their use.

      Incidentally, if attacked, the Swiss can deploy their standing army in 24 hours and their active reserves in 48 to 72 hours. They have flourmills, bakeries and other food processing plants built into railway wagons. Their farms have well maintained tank traps in place, and all their bridges are mined.

      During an army open day that families are invited to (and me on one occasion) they showed a movie of an air base. Not unusual, you think? Well, this air base was entirely inside a mountain – including fuel and weapon storage, accommodation, hospital, and, believe it or not, the runways. The planes land and take off inside the mountain!

      They make no secret of these things. The message is clear: Don’t attack us. You may not live long enough to regret it.

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    • saviorammo
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:56pm

      Don’t forget the Swiss Guard. Some of the mose Elete soldiers in the world. They just happen to take care of the Vatican.

      Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Who has all the money?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:04am

      @Eric the Red State:
      @NZKiwi:

      Both of your posts confirms for me, a non traveler, much of what I have heard and read about the armed forces of Switzerland. I knew in Kiwanis club a lady from there, and she described the land as a ‘place that is loving to visit, and death to anyone who tries to take it.”

      I believe that Switzerland would be a case of someone dumb enough to assault it would be putting their fist into a beehive and not getting out easily or painlessly.

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    • SCHEXbp
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:44am

      I think this makes a fanciful supposition, but if the Nazi war machine had wanted to invade Switzerland & take it, they would have & ruthlessly so. Maybe they would have suffered a disproportionate loss for a while, but since Switzerland had NO strategic value & perhaps “helped” in non-military ways, they were left alone (like Sweden & Portugal were).
      The Nazis did whatever they thought necessary (or crazy Adolf did) & even took Crete partly with gliders delivering troops. It invaded the Russian colossus & almost defeated it, Luckily Mussolini was an idiot too & decided to invade Greece on his own & was losing ground, so Germany took it for him, thus delaying the invasion of Russia from the spring until June 22, 1941 – which meant it ran into the coldest winter in the 20th century-to-date & oil was freezing in tanks when they got to the gates of Moscow. Russia regrouped & launched a counteroffensive with their prepared winter units.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:08am

      Eric_The_Red_State: “This would put the rate of killings or attempted killings with firearms at about one for every quarter million residents yearly.”
      —–
      Closed borders.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:57am

      @SCHEXbp
      Don’t get me started on Crete. Anzacs were defending (plus some British) under our General Freyburg. I could go into detail, but we lost. Also, you are wrong about the gliders. It was the biggest paratroop invasion in martial history. The hammering that the Germans took persuaded Hitler never to use paratroops in assault ever again.

      But we lost.

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  • CatB
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:06pm

    Criminals are bringing them in daily.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:44pm

      Indeed, and those who try to register and do what the law requires of them are denied their rights to the arms they have paid for. So the criminal is elevated to the status of good guy and the citizens who follow the law are now the villains…to those lords of DC’ville.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:48pm

      “Despite Court’s OK, D.C. Residents Unable to Legally Register Handguns”

      Can they ILLEGALLY register them?

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    • Love_Small_Dogs
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:39am

      The headline makes it seem like registration in DC is illegal, but the headline is misleading. DC uses a non-Governmental registry solution, and the private market can’t seem to get their act straight.
      Some folks may need to read the article slowly.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:55am

      @SCHEXbp
      Don’t get me started on Crete. Anzacs were defending (plus some British) under our General Freyburg. I could go into detail, but we lost. Also, you are wrong about the gliders. It was the biggest paratroop invasion in martial history. The hammering that the Germans took persuaded Hitler never to use paratroops in assault ever again.

      But we lost.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:59am

      Damn! Posted in the wrong place. Sorry, please ignore.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:06pm

    Can not stop you by making them illegal; then we will SSLLLOOoowwwwww…….. you down through bureaucratic rules & regulation…

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:29pm

      Do not register any weapon you have, once you do, your name is on a list and they know where to go to get them once the win the battle to illegalize them and turn us into slaves or commit genocide.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:43pm

      @Stoic One:

      Dead on, they will use any and all means of regulation and litigation along with self imposed laws and boycots despite what the Judges have declared. This should come as no suprise to anyone as we have a President who openly declares any laws he does not like as unconstitutional even when they have passed the muster. Socialists and Progressives predominate in DC, they have become the equal to the old lords and nobles of Medevil Europe and such.

      We need to gut the system of career beaurocrats in addition to the top. Change has to be made at all levels from top down and bottom up for it to be effective and long lasting.

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    • Revere1
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:44pm

      Libs don’t care about the courts any more than the constitution. They just want to do away with the Second Amendment. http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/04/gun-control-explained.html

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:05pm

      Molon Labe! OORAH!

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:38pm

      Well when you consider that D.C. is unlike any other city or should I say they are not really a “City” by any definition but something in-between since D.C. does not actually belong to any of the states in the area. It is more like an Indian Reservation with out all the legal representation that States or Countries get, at least the Indians are treated like separate but semi-equal peoples. D.C. is “ruled” or should I say managed by Congress.

      It is a shame that residents of D.C. don’t have the same Constitutional Rights that the rest of the cities in the country do.

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    • carnifex
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:50pm

      Ask the people of New Orleans how that registration works. Molon Labe indeed. Never ever ever trust the government. The best government in the world only wants to acquire more and more power unto itself.

      Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe– Dianne Feinstein

      Every one of my positions cuts – out half the country. I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gay rights, I’m pro-immigration, I’m against guns, I believe in Darwin– Michael Bloomberg

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:56pm

      D. C. citizens are afforded the same Constitutional rights as ANY American citizens and the right to bear arms “shall not be infringed”.
      If citizens within that “district” want to own a firearm, it is not up to some local dealer with the only lisence to transfer in the district to do so. The Supreme Court gave the go ahead, it is up to the Mayor’s office to make it so in a VERY timely manor.

      On a side note, regarding the “don’t feed the trolls” doctrine that was issued, I wish to re-iterate my suggestion that on Sunday we all post as lib-trolls, on EVERY post, and have a contest as to who can be the most creative.

      I think I’ll win.

      And I’m accepting all challenges.

      Semper Fi, Blazers. Let‘s embarrass the trolls so badly they will curl up in a fetal possition like Cartmann’s nannies!

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:59pm

      Sounds like BS to me.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:31am

      Barry Obama actually knew in Illinois he couldn’t outlaw guns, so he was making proposals to add a 50 cent per bullet tax. He stated, “what good is a gun if you can’t get ammo.” They admitted though it would be a futile and stupid effort and it never made it to a vote.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 1:24am

      @My Sacred Honor
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:56pm

      I’m not competing against you. I don’t want my butt stomped!
      Did you get the email?

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    • S G Applebee
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 1:27am

      Nothing more needs to be said:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZwcxIQECk

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    • jzs
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:06am

      Sorry Snow, have to call you out again. You’re getting out of hand once more. You say:

      “This should come as no surprise to anyone as we have a President who openly declares any laws he does not like as unconstitutional even when they have passed the muster.”

      As a man or woman of God, you have stated President Obama has “openly declared any laws he does not like as unconstitutional.”

      As a man or woman of God, you would not bear false witness. You would not make stuff up. So I’m sure you can explain to the entire world what laws (plural) President Obama has “openly declared are unconstitutional.”

      Snow, frankly, I think you are a fraud. But you’ve made a statement. So I’m calling you out. Tell us what laws President Obama has openly declared are unconstitutional .

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:13am

      MIKEM,
      This is no joking matter. I hope patriots heed your wise advice. Some people don’t realize that THEY are already at war with us.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:41am

      “Mountain of Skulls”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeHSAim_ISU&feature=feedu

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    • colonial10
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:46am

      I guess nobody realizes the true power of the Constitution and the illegality of the policy makers in Washington. Every law abiding citizen should purchase a gun and then let the liberals who run Washington sue the whole city. That would be called, calling their bluff. In turn the city could sue the government. The problem is that a majority of people are being black mailed by our own government. Aren‘t the housing prices still high in Washington and isn’t the economy doing very well. Sounds to me like everyone is scared of loosing money on their homes or loosing federal funding. The good news is that moths and rust will eat away their treasures. What a way to sell out your own country men. Washington is full of a bunch of Benedict Arnold’s.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:50am

      Ray Stevens “Obama Budget Plan”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6TcpfBHlbs&feature=feedu

      Enjoy!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 2:54am

      You would just have to call me a criminal. I would own a gun no matter what. They will not take away my rights even if they think they can. I would face the music when I get caught. Better than being killed by a REAL criminal.
      Who the F do they think they are????????

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 4:48am

      @MySacredHonor
      How are things going for you? Are all your people OK down south? Did any of the storms hit near you? My families prayers are with you all down in Dixie.

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    • orangeelephant
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 5:58am

      @Sacred honor…..Post as a Lib…Ill give it a shot. Help me please mister government man.

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 7:02am

      S-1 is right on and so is M-69. It is best to keep firearms off the government grid IF at all possible. The assault on our 2nd Amendment rights has been underway for some time now and shows no sign of abatement. C’est la vie. I am here clinging to my NIV and Corbons.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 8:25am

      More second amendment stupidity.

      Off subject, I saw this story on FoxNews.com “Texas Bill Would Make Invasive Pat-Downs a Felony”. Finally some fourth amendment common sense. I was surprised I didn’t see it on The Blaze.

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    • southernORcobra
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 8:35am

      he’s ripping people off most places transfer fees only amount to 30 dollars for the transfer and 10 dollars for the background check customer usually pays the price and shipping fees

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 8:44am

      @My Sacred Honor: Great idea, the only problem is there won’t be any libs on those sites tomorrow…they’ll all be out celebrating the Communist Holiday (May Day).

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:04am

      @ JZS – To answer your question to Snow: It has been announced by the DOJ that they will NO LONGER defend the Defensive Marriage Act in court (which is their JOB) b/c Obama has read through it & he believes it’s unconstitutional.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:23am

      I make my own rules!! I,ll take the rap, if I live thru the incident!! I/e any encounter I would need one!!! “Out of My Cold dead Hands”!!!

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    • Love_Small_Dogs
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 9:33am

      The DC “Taxation Without Representation” license plate is even cooler than the proposed Arizona “Don’t Tread On Me” vanity plate, because it has been the basic “no cost” DC plate for 25 years!

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    • concealled9mms
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:48am

      Mike 1969 got 42 unregistered myself you are correct

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    • FreeMan5771
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 10:51am

      It is this way in DC because that is where those in the federal government hang out.

      Maybe all guns she be taken out of DC, including the ones the secret service have to gun down snipers and angry mobs.

      I bet there are a lot of households that have guns in DC, registered or not.
      I can’t believe the citizens there put up with these hand gun bans for this long anyway.

      They will try to disarm us soon because they all will fear for their lives once the uprisings start when Americans are informed that our Dollar has collapsed and the constitution has been suspended and we are now under “day to day” decree of the IMF and Chicago Carbon Exchange. The elected officials will hole up in their bunkers and high-five each other while the citizens fight each other on class warfare.

      Own a business? The problem isn’t your employees.
      Work for someone? The problem isn’t your employer.
      Poor? The problem isn’t the rich.
      Rich? The problem isn’t the poor.
      Black? The problem isn’t whites.
      White? The problem isn’t blacks.
      Citizen? The problem isn’t illegal aliens.
      Illegal Alien? The problem isn’t the citizens.

      Whatever “class” or “group” you fall in, the PROBLEM IS THE GOVERNMENT overstepping its constitutional authority and stealing all it can from each and every group I mentioned above.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 11:24am

      @FreeMan5771
      Good post. I was particularly impressed with the penultimate paragraph.

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    • wildbill_b
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:36pm

      The simple way to look at this whole thing to understand it is “Can the Government grant you permission to do something that is unlawful? Can they give a license to murder?

      Legal is NOT Lawful. Legal “proceedings” (statute) follows a prescribed “procedure” but may or may not be lawful.(Allowed by the Constitution).

      Everyone has forgotten this fact.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 1:10pm

      They gone have to pry my winchester repeater out of my cold dead hands like I pried it out of that that injuns!

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on April 30, 2011 at 4:18pm

      @mikem1969..EXACTLY.. I did not remember reading in the CONSTITUTION anything about REGISTERING the guns..IT DOES HOWEVER say WE ARE ALLOWED to have them and the government CAN’T infringe on that right … so SCREW them and the UN TOO.. and ANY kind of treaty they sign to try to take that right away..

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    • wildernessboundary
      Posted on May 1, 2011 at 9:13am

      It seems that there is a time coming when we have to withdraw the very thing that gives them the ability to use force against us – the consent of the governed – without that consent all they can do is write worthless paper. It would take an event that would galvanize a critical mass of people but that feeling is out there in the ether I think.

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