Friday, January 3, 2014

Gun Re-registration Begins in D.C.


For the first time in the United States, a citizen who has legally registered a gun will have to submit to a renewal process. The consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific 60-day window are dire.

Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C. resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted.

The Metropolitan Police Department estimates there are at least 30,000 registered gun owners.

If the registrant does not go to the police station within three months after a set time frame, the registration is revoked. That citizen is then in possession of an unregistered firearm, which is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.

The gun itself is put into a category of weapons that can never be registered, just as though it were a machine gun or a sawed-off shotgun.

The city has not made clear how it will enforce the law, but the police are in possession of all registrants’ home addresses so confiscation and arrests would be simple.

10 comments:

  1. Yet another reason why registration must never be tolerated in the first place.

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    1. Yeah, because it's an inconvenience.

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    2. Not an inconvenience. It's an opportunity for the government to violate rights.

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    3. Yeah the evil government. Confiscation ALWAYS comes right before jack-booted government thugs go door to door to take your guns away.

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    4. What a paranoid gun loon. Got your Catlin gun set up on your roof ready to shot government troops?
      HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

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    5. My "Catlin" gun? Sure, that'll be some Irish lass with a pocket revolver, me boyo?

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    6. So sad you have to resort to spelling errors. To bad you cannot cite truth and facts, or be a decent human being.

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    7. The site lying ass hole coward has no response for Sally

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  2. Start putting them in jail, compliance will increase.

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