Post Heller DC
Interesting article in the WaPo about gun ownership there since the historic Heller decision. The affluent are buying guns. The poor likely can’t afford DC’s onerous costs to gun ownership. The WaPo has no problem telling it’s readers which neighborhoods have the legal guns.
February 9th, 2011 at 10:54 am
And how many.
Obligatory Helmke drivel quoted in the article.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Well… It would be pretty obvious to anyone in DC which neighborhoods have most of the illegal guns. Hell, at night you can just follow your ears, trusting that anyone with a legal pistol wouldnt be using it so often…
February 9th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
If Michael Grinage wants some free Rule #3 instruction and maybe some free range time, he just needs to ask.
February 9th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Well, the area with the lower percentage of legally, newly purchased guns, tracks pretty well with the area that already had plenty of guns. Duh.
I guess, this was sort of, a kinda not too hysterical, WaPo article, but obtuse and typically they had go find the most bloviating gun owner they could find to talk about how he “packs heat.”
February 9th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Interesting article. Noted: only one FFL in DC and he is charging $150 to do a handgun transfer! What a rip off. My FFL charges $10. No wonder the poor can’t afford a gun in DC.
February 9th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
But aren’t we paying for the residents of D.C. to live there with our Taxes? After all, even if you work for a private company, chances are it’s making it money from the Feds. Wonder how many WaPo staffers live in those rich neighborhoods, and are secretly glad their neighbors are protecting them from the Riff-Raff?
February 9th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
In DC, you can buy a gun in MD and register it in DC. That DC FFL guy is a shyster. Most legal firearm purchasers cross the border and buy from Atlantic Guns.
I have to check, but I’m not sure if there’s a clause in the DC Public Housing laws that would prohibit firearms possession. It would have been written pre-Heller, and wouldn’t be updated until someone challenged it.
What the WaPo didn’t bother reporting on was the people that purchased AR-15s and legally registered them, only to have DC ban them after the fact.
February 10th, 2011 at 11:23 am
As pointed out, this does not account for the large number of “undocumented” guns in the poorer neighborhoods in existence before the lifting of the ban. It shows that 1% of more affluent households bought guns last year, a number I’m finding astonishingly low.
February 10th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Benelli 12-gauge “combat assault shotgun”, that’s a new one, spit diet pop out my nose when I read that. Brother