2008-07-16

DC Gun Registration

Registering your gun in DC is such a pain that if I happened to live there I'd likely skip the whole process for now and wait a couple months for the permanent rules.  You need to complete a safety test, get fingerprinted, and kiss the Mayor's ass.  Maybe that last part is a joke, but they do seem to have a lot of discretion.  

The worst part?  A vision test.  So if you have trouble seeing, you cannot own a gun.  This would seem to violate many existing laws, such as the ADA act.  Just because someone is visually impaired does not mean they are prohibited from owning a gun.  Per federal law, only criminal acts and mental illnesses are barriers, not disabilities.  Make all the jokes you want about blind people and guns, but if you believe in the Constitution, they should be able to own them.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

DC sucks. They'll try and try to keep people from owning guns of all kinds. Even though the ban was overturned, they'll still try to prevent people from owning them. This is wrong and I won't be in DC anytime soon unless it's really important.