DC resisting correcting gun laws - Emily Miller

safecracker · Apr 4, 2012

The latest from Emily Miller.....

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/apr/2/miller-dc-resists-correcting-gun-laws/

mayor_quimby · Apr 4, 2012

Part of me wonders if it gets old that this one lady has to keep pointing out these problems. Coupled with the lack of anyone caring to make these changes. What shes doing is basically shaming MPD into doing its job. I still don't understand why they cant sit down and make these updates .

GNLaFrance · Apr 4, 2012

I see this as a "**** you" from the DC government as a result of the gains we've been making. Like spoiled brats, the powers that be are petulantly refusing to correct the problems Ms Miller is pointing out, and won't do so until they're forced to do it.

I predict Maryland will go the same way. The state legislature and executive branches will balk and come up with new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms until they are beaten bloody.

Walter · Apr 4, 2012

She should just leave. So what if she has a gun now. If she ever uses it in self defense they'll lock her up and throw the key away forever. It is DC after all.

iobidder · Apr 4, 2012

GNLaFrance said:
I see this as a "**** you" from the DC government as a result of the gains we've been making. Like spoiled brats, the powers that be are petulantly refusing to correct the problems Ms Miller is pointing out, and won't do so until they're forced to do it.

I predict Maryland will go the same way. The state legislature and executive branches will balk and come up with new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms until they are beaten bloody.

First paragraph I agree and even an understatement.

DC Gov't is just f*cked up....period! Unlike MD, DC has too many cooks stirring the pot including Congress. I do not think MD will go the exact route as DC. Too many 'dignitaries' and 'politicians' in DC.

Maryland Hunter · Apr 4, 2012

I have read a few of her articles, and I am amazed at what DC gets away with, even now after being exposed by her. I one, she was given blatent information about transporting, and she went striaght to the guy that wrote the laws, to get it clear. She had names of who had given her bad info that had amounted to downright lies. I doubt anything was ever done. :sad20:

*EDIT I actually read the article linked above and it refers to the previous article that I spoke of.

MH

rglrguy · Apr 5, 2012

She is exactly the type of reporter we need writing these articles. She didn't start as a gun nut and she approaches it from a "the government shouldn't make these rediculous rules because they only impede law abiding citizens" angle.

Boxcab · Apr 5, 2012

Walter said:
She should just leave. So what if she has a gun now. If she ever uses it in self defense they'll lock her up and throw the key away forever. It is DC after all.

Nah, that would be un-American, maybe even French. :rolleyes:

American's love a fight, and a fight for one of your most basic Rights is quite honorable. Once the anti gun laws are corrected, she can pursue those other unjust laws you are concerned about.

rambling_one · Apr 5, 2012

Holder should leave the states alone and investigate this vigorously since DC's a federal enclave.

esqappellate · Apr 5, 2012

safecracker said:
The latest from Emily Miller.....

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/apr/2/miller-dc-resists-correcting-gun-laws/

Lesson: Stay out of DC with your firearms. Period. Yes, I know about 18 U.S.C. 926A. And yes, I know that means foregoing the exercise of your rights. And yes, I know that means going all the way around and that can be a huge PITA. But, as she notes, who needs to spend a night in jail waiting for your lawyer to educate the D.C. Police on the law. You still have an arrest record. Ok, let the barrage begin.

JMangle · Apr 5, 2012

esqappellate said:
Lesson: Stay out of DC with your firearms. Period. Yes, I know about 18 U.S.C. 926A. And yes, I know that means foregoing the exercise of your rights. And yes, I know that means going all the way around and that can be a huge PITA. But, as she notes, who needs to spend a night in jail waiting for your lawyer to educate the D.C. Police on the law. You still have an arrest record. Ok, let the barrage begin.

I'm not gonna launch a salvo at anyone here, especially not esq.

I'm going to re-state my personal thought process -- don't break the laws, but fight like hell to change them. That means not running away, and not giving yourself a record.

Look at the gun-cases out there: Doesn't it seem like the civil cases brought by SAF do a lot better than the criminal cases brought by joe-schmo?

I could be alive another 75 years -- that's a lot of fight.

esqappellate · Apr 5, 2012

JMangle said:
I'm not gonna launch a salvo at anyone here, especially not esq.

I'm going to re-state my personal thought process -- don't break the laws, but fight like hell to change them. That means not running away, and not giving yourself a record.

Look at the gun-cases out there: Doesn't it seem like the civil cases brought by SAF do a lot better than the criminal cases brought by joe-schmo?

I could be alive another 75 years -- that's a lot of fight.

On that we are *fully* agreed. For those of us who are not D.C. residents, the best way to do that is through Congress, since Congress can control D.C. entirely at its whim and caprice. For non-residents, it would be hard to create a test case ala Heller or Woollard. And JMangle is completely correct: Getting caught and arrested is NOT a good way to create a test case, if there was any doubt on that. That is especially true for us old farts -- I am a lot older than JMangle and I don't want to spend any of my later years in a lockup in D.C. and anywhere else. The clientele at those places is, ah, well, let's just say that they are less than congenial.

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