Ah, DC
CounterTop has made a convert of a San Fran liberal to gun fun. Only problem:
This injustice, of course, was driven home even further when I noticed M2 had taken a variety of cartridges with him – for momentos, he said. I of course had no problem, but did feel obligated to tell him ammo – even empty cases – were banned in DC and each cartridge was a separate 5 year sentence.
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:52 pm
casings are illegal in DC? What the heck rrrrrr!
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Yep.
Your only allowed to have ammo for a firearm which you are permitted to possess in the District. Of course, such a permit is essentially impossible to obtain (for handguns they are only available for handguns registered with the city prior to 1976. For long guns, the police department literally has no one assigned to the task of registering guns and no procedures in place to do so even though it is technically possible for them to do it).
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Also, they consider “ammunition” to be both a complete cartridge and any of the individual constituent parts of the cartridge (casing or bullet or gun powder or primer).
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:02 am
FWIW the MGLs (MA Gun Laws) are the same way re: ammo. I took a gentleman to the range for his first session in well over 30 years last summer, and he commented that the last time he fired a gun was sometime in the Boy Scouts. It was a camp run by the FBI (!), and they let each kid take home a piece of .45 ACP brass as a memento of the camp.
That piece of brass, I told him, was a five year felony waiting to happen.
I’m sure you’ve seen the novelty key-chains with an inert cartridge of some variety (latest I’ve seen is the .500 S&W Magnum).
You need an FID card to possess one in the state of MA. I shit you not…
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:54 am
This MA you speak of, people live there?
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:53 am
Marc: Even Kennedy/Kerry voters are people…
March 5th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Out at the Izaak Walton league in Centreville there’s a guy who shoots a French MAS-36 in the service rifle matches who lives in DC. I’ve forgotten most of the details of what he had to go through to get a bolt action rifle registered there, but it wasn’t fun. It has a bayonet (on a bolt action rifle) so that made life harder. And, since it has a detachable magazine, he had to prove that there weren’t magazines that held more than 10 or 12 (can’t remember which–might have been 12 so it didn’t run into DC’s machine gun laws. Or, at least, that’s what he was told. 12 cartridges in a magazine = machine gun. Welcome to DC). Finally he got it registered, and he has to store the bolt, ammo, and rifle in separate safes lest he run afoul of the safe storage laws. All this so he can drive 35 miles once or twice a month to shoot in a rifle match.