Good Article on DC Gun Ownership - no Reports of Legal Use or Thefts

[Spot77]

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http://www.washingt ontimes.com/ news/2009/ jul/17/legal- guns-not- used-one- year-later- no-report- of-on/
Friday, July 17, 2009
Legal guns in D.C. not used one year later
Jennifer Maas THE WASHINGTON TIMES

It's been a year since a Northwest D.C. housewife carried a Ruger .357 Magnum into police headquarters in a blue plastic grocery bag and became the District's first legal handgun owner since the Supreme Court overturned a decades-old ban.

Today, Amy McVey's handgun is one of just 515 that have been legally registered with the Metropolitan Police Department -- a number that pales compared with more than 2,000 illegal weapons that have been seized in the same period.

She hasn't had to use it to defend her home. Nor has anyone attempted to steal it and use it against her or to commit some other crime -- undermining the most widely used arguments for and against permitting guns.

In fact, police say they have no information that would indicate any gun legally registered since July 17, 2008, has been fired by its owner in defense of life or property, or that one has been stolen or used in the commission of a crime..............

.........During the year residents have been allowed to register guns, preliminary police statistics say violent crime and property crime have gone down citywide -- a modest decline that even the most ardent gun rights advocate would have difficulty attributing to legal gun ownership. Police also say they have seized more than 2,000 illegal guns from D.C. streets in the last year.

 

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Moderators, please close this thread because there is already a thread on this.
http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=22110

 

[Norton]

geez....you just can't get good help these days.