In DC
Residents say it’s too hard to exercise their rights. Licensing and registration is about $500. And it looks like some gun dealer is charging a $125 transfer fee.
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July 5th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Interesting…
Does anyone else remember the poll taxes
imposed on voting in the South during Jim
Crow? The tax was prohibitive for
virtually all black people (and the few
who could afford it could be intimidated
into not voting) and it was waived
for white people.
The objective was always the same: to
prevent the exercise of a civil right by
“undesirables”. During Jim Crow, the
“undesirables” were blacks; in DC today,
the “undesirables” are, apparently, the
law-abiding taxpayers.
July 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
The District of Columbia has been ceded back in part to the states in the past … the other side of the Potomac was given back to Virginia, for instance.
Shrink DC to just the mall, and as few federal buildings as possible. Make the rest of it part of Maryland.
No one should live in D.C. except the President and Vice President.
July 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
The gun dealer doing $125.00 transfers is the only FFL in D.C.. Anybody that wants to charge less is welcome to try their hand at getting a FFL.
July 5th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Or congress can allow DC residents to purchase out of the district without having to perform a transfer inside the district.
July 5th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Since DC is the supposed repository of the interests of the states, could it not be reasonably argued that DC residents have a limited residence in each of the 50 states? therefore, they could purchase a gun in any of them?
Not a likely winner, but a question worthy of perhaps exploration?
July 5th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
“Make the rest of it part of Maryland”
Not in this lifetime Bud !! We have enough slackers and n’er-do-wells without adding DC. Put them back under the control of the Congress the way it was with an appointed mayor.
Home Rule my left butt cheek.
July 6th, 2010 at 8:39 am
“Jay Hafemeister Says:
The gun dealer doing $125.00 transfers is the only FFL in D.C.. Anybody that wants to charge less is welcome to try their hand at getting a FFL.”
Actually that is not true, Josh Sugarman, the head of the VPC (Violence Policy Center) has a FFL license in DC. I do not know what they are charging for transfers LOL.
Check it out
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/the_quintessenc.php
July 6th, 2010 at 9:46 am
That’s from a couple of years ago, though. Has he kept it up?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
When Heller was settled there were something like 6 or 7 FFLs in D.C. Only 1 was willing to do transfers, so until there is more competition they are free to charge what they want.