September 4, 2008
Gun Sales to Start in D.C. on Sept. 9
On Wednesday WTOP's Mark Segraves reported that handgun sales will officially start in the District next Tuesday, Sept. 9 — just in time for primary election day! There are still no gun stores inside city limits, so the only guns that have been registered in D.C. so far were either registered under the amnesty program or were being stored out-of-state, since federal law requires that new gun purchases must either originate from or be transferred to a dealer in the state where gun will be registered. Charles Sykes, the only licensed D.C. firearms dealer who so far has announced he will transfer out of state gun sales to the District, told WTOP his office in Anacostia will be open for business on Tuesday. Sykes said he plans to charge a $125 fee per transfer.
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Thank goodness only people who can afford $300-plus for a firearm and another $125 transfer fee will be allowed to defend themselves in DC. I guess poor people are stuck using rocks and harsh language.
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Oh, here we go. Naturally, taxpayers should subsidize the cost of a firearm for the poor. After all, it is the duty of everyone in the country to try and equalize the society because it's unfair for two people to be of unequal stature. Won't you communists please shut up?
Besides, the poor are significantly more likely to have had these now-legal weapons for years, using them to commit crimes and steal from you.
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Why can't the MPD Amnesty program donate or offer discounts to those in need?
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In Anacostia? Shocking. Let me guess... is it next to a liquor store?
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Best part about all this: Sykes used to work for MPD approving firearms dealer licenses.
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@ bagdaddy08- I think there was some sarcasm there which your earnest god fearing ear could not pick up on.
Everyone knows the poor have plenty guns, they beeze the ones pointing them at us all the time, right?
Besides as soon as the paint dries on my sign, I will be selling DC special homemade guns for the ultra low price of $19.99 or $6.99 in three easy payments. My product will feature genuine lead pipe chamber, hand carved wooden handle, and I will even through in a guaranteed to fire in the right direction bullet.
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Have it double as a bong and I'll take two please. For medicinal purposes only, off course. Otherwise, I might go blinder and not hit my target!
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"is it next to a liquor store"
... if not then the high school! Maybe!
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in all honestly, doesn't it seem like, since people argue that owning a firearm is a right and not a privilege (like driving, apparently), that someone will eventually file a suit in order to guarantee that those who can't afford a firearm will be able to purchase one with a government subsidy.
i mean, personally, i think that's absolutely ridiculous, but that's where the logic takes you if you keep following it to the end...
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@IMGoph
Wait...what? Who said driving is a right? Free Speech is a right, but that does not mean you have to be given a platform to speak nationally.
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Product News Alert: The DC Commemorative “build your own” gun; will come in both the original $19.99 "guaranteed to shoot em' once" edition, and the NEW $21.99 "you can smoke anything that burns out of it" edition, for those hunters out there with glaucoma, and you scared little safety nuts who need to smoke more something to keep that paranoia level up. Just announced: It will also be sold with my new memoir titled “how to stop a mugging by shooting the bastard with your homemade gun” (Introduction by Gov. Palin).
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i didn't say driving is a right ccunning, i said that others here have argued that it is a privilege.
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I don't think the GOP has yet met a problem that tax cuts couldn't "solve."
Just sayin.
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IMGoph: That's where what logic takes you?
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politburo: the logic i was talking about what the right to be armed. if it's such an important, inalienable right, then everyone should be able to get a gun without impediments, legal or otherwise.
since poor people have the impediment of money, the government should give them vouchers to buy guns, so everyone can be armed.
QED
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I dunno, i was taught that the Constitution just guarantees the right to own a gun and that the government will not interfere with that right of ownership (like take the gun away).
Maybe the government could establish a lend/lease program.
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"if it's such an important, inalienable right, then everyone should be able to get a gun without impediments, legal or otherwise."
That's where you're losing me.. is this some sort of trick? Has the real IMGoph been replaced with Folgers Crystals?
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politburo: thanks, that really made me laugh!
i'm not advocating this at all. i'm just saying that this is where the pro-gun logic leads. me personally, i'd like to see them all melted down into a monument to our past obsession with violence. but that's just my hippy dippy liberal ass talking... :)
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Are light sabres legal yet?
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Gunsale-pocalypse?