Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation

Via WRSA

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1st law in U.S. to require renewal with fingerprints and fees

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. Resist & Refuse. Simply make them go to the cost of finding out you accidentally dropped your gun in the creek. Last year.

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  2. This is what you get for being stupid enough to register one in the first place.
    The bastards can't come after you if they don't know you have one to begin with.

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  3. It's obvious that a likely reason some total stranger would want detailed information about what guns you own would be so that he could steal them later. Why people can't seem to apply this reasoning when the stranger in question draws a government check or wears a government costume is beyond me.

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    1. government check or government costume

      ? Not sure what you mean.

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    2. Bureaucrat-->draws government check
      "law enforcement officer." --> wears government-issued costume

      Despite my contempt for the political class, I don't have a problem with individual police if they confine themselves to protecting the liberty, property, and lives of their employers, us, and act like gentlemen. Sadly many of them seem to have forgotten their proper role.

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    3. No, I wondered how they applied to gun control or do you mean that by being visible, make themselves known to patriots?

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  4. Registration will eventually lead to confiscation. The people who "re-register" their guns are asking to have them confiscated and are just making it easy on the gun-grabbers.

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    1. The people who "re-register" their guns are asking to have them confiscated and are just making it easy on the gun-grabbers.

      Agreed.

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