rodc13

Just how many more tax dollars will be thrown away as these guys try to advance their misguided agendas?

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obxned

More Fenty follies.

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There is only one gun law in this country, the 2nd Amendment. All else is bureaucratic nonsense that I choose to comply with or not at my discretion.

When governments make laws, they must consider the unintended consequences.

packinnova

What a bunch of maroons. I'm an engineer. I can probably come up with a way for a Flintlock to hold 1000 rnds. Will it make a bit of difference as to how "dangerous" it is or would dc call it a machine gun?

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InspectorGadget

"I think an individual library that can hold 18 books — that is filled and you can read 18 books — is a problem for public safety in the District," Mendelson said. "I don't know what the correct number is, but something less than 18 books."

If they cant ban altogether, they will make it painful to get one through licecnsing.

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kazzaerexys

Agree with that, but the actual wording is "can be readily converted" to shoot more than 12 rounds. Apparently the standing interpretation for that has been that somewhere, somebody does make a 12+ magazine for the gun. But there are guns that don't have that hi-cap availability. Needing access to a machine shop is not a "ready conversion".

I will give you one. My SIG P6/P225. Heck, I can barely even get the normal mags for this. They don't make them anymore. Nobody makes hi-caps for it. This gun is not a machine-gun even by D.C.'s asinine definition. Therefore, I should be able to transfer it to my g/f in D.C. so she can register it.

But their flyer says no, clearly in contradiction to the law as written.

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stanislaskasava

Ok, so if any gun that can be readily converted to shoot more than 12 rounds without reloading is a 'machine gun' by D.C. law, this clearly proves that machine guns are in common use and therefore legal to keep and bear.

Let them put that in their pipe and smoke it.

Natureboypkr

I guess to get a firearm there it would have to be muzzleloaded

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Eagleks

They may be able to challenge that law.... they cannot just "make up" definitions.... Courts have ruled before in cases that States, etc. cannot just make them up as they go along... and have to use the "prevaling and commonly accepted definition".

SelfDefense

How do you reconcile your opinion with the fact that courts are now routinely redefining marriage?

Yes, they can make up any definition they want. Don't you understand we have an evolving society and that what was previously a commonly accepted defintition now can mean something completely different.

Thse who rely on the courts to redress their grievances are seriously barking up the wrong tree.

Eagleks

The courts said the States, Cities, and Law-makers couldn't do it.... they never said "they" couldn't do it. There have been Supreme Court rulings on that very issue... and that's their statement.