Need some help with DC gun laws and gun laws in general!

novus collectus said:

It still has to have the mayor's signature on it. It is possible Fenty is tired of being sued and may not sign it because the training requirements may not be able to be fufilled since no one may be able to give it, or if it is given out of the District, a lot of people will not be able to take it. It is an undue restriction that Fenty may feel DC may lose on agian and who knows, he might send it back to the council for revision.

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To amend An Act To control the possession, sale, transfer and use of pistols and other dangerous 5
weapons in the District of Columbia, to provide penalties, to prescribe rules of evidence, 6
and for other purposes to change the definitions for the terms firearm, machine gun, 7
pistol, and sawed-off shotgun, to provide definitions for the terms shotgun and place of 8
business, to make discharging a weapon without a permit from the Chief of Police a 9
misdemeanor offense, to prohibit carrying rifles and shotguns in the District except in 10
limited circumstances and to provide penalties for violations of the prohibition that are 11
equivalent to those for unlawfully carrying a pistol, to allow for the transportation of 12
firearms in limited circumstances, to repeal the authority of the Chief of Police to issue 13
licenses for the carrying of pistols, and to change the waiting period for delivery of a 14
purchased pistol from 2 to 10 days; and to provide a savings clause with regard to the 15
revised definitions.

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To amend the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 to revise the definitions of the terms 12
firearm, machine gun, pistol, and sawed-off shotgun, to add definitions for the terms 13
assault weapon, intrafamily offense, magazine, and place of business, to provide a self- 14
defense exemption for temporary possession of a firearm registered to another person 15
within the registrant’s home, to provide for the registration of pistols for use in self- 16
defense within the home, to prohibit the registration of assault weapons and certain 17
designated unsafe firearms, to increase the time period for which convictions for drug 18
offenses and certain assaults disqualify a person from registering a firearm from 5 years 19
prior to the application to 10 years prior to the application, to provide that a person who 20
has been convicted of an intrafamily offense within 10 years of application shall be 21
ineligible to register a firearm, to provide that a person with multiple alcohol-related 22
offenses within 5 years of application shall be ineligible to register a firearm, to provide 23
that a person who has suffered from a mental disorder within 5 years of application and 24
has a history of violence shall be ineligible to register a firearm, to clarify that the Chief 25
of Police may require an applicant for registration to receive training and pass testing on 26
the use, handling, and storage of firearms, to provide that applicants who have had civil 27
protection or foreign protection orders entered against them shall be ineligible to register 1
a firearm while the order is still in effect, to establish a registration limit of one pistol per 2
registrant per 30 days, to require a ballistics identification procedure as part of the 3
registration process and to authorize the Chief of Police to assess a reasonable fee for the 4
procedure, to clarify the process of revocation of a registration certificate, to authorize 5
the Chief of Police to discount registration fees for applicants who successfully complete 6
safety and proficiency courses, to provide a process for the renewal of registration 7
certificates, to prohibit large capacity ammunition feeding devices, to provide that 8
firearms dealers must notify the Chief of the theft or loss of any firearms or ammunition 9
from their inventory, to add an additional reason for revocation of a dealers license, to 10
provide that semiautomatic pistols manufactured and sold in the District be 11
microstamped, to prohibit the sale, transfer, ownership, or possession of designated 12
unsafe firearms, to clarify the firearms storage policy, to establish penalties for the 13
reckless storage of a firearm accessible by a minor, and to provide that the District of 14
Columbia and private persons may prohibit or restrict the possession of firearms on their 15
property; to amend the Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act of 1990 to 16
change the definition of the term assault weapon to conform it with the definition used in 17
the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975; to provide a savings clause for actions, 18
proceedings, and prosecutions commenced before amendments made by this act. 19

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K-Romulus said:

Update: it seems that the bill is actually B17-1041.

http://www.dccouncil.us/lims/legcouncil.asp?page=70&pageid=b&period1=17&search=&period=


Conveniently, the text of the bill is "unavailable."

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K-Romulus said:

Update: it seems that the bill is actually B17-1041.

http://www.dccouncil.us/lims/legcouncil.asp?page=70&pageid=b&period1=17&search=&period=


Conveniently, the text of the bill is "unavailable."

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