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DC's Gun Ban is now back in place

JimMullinsWVCDL

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Obviously, the question of standing was one of the reasons why this was filed in E.D.Va. and not D.D.C. and thus Ms. Lane and SAF will hopefully avoid the DC Circuit's absurd standing rules.
 

press1280

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My guess is that this case will be tossed, because Ms. Lane will be judged as not having "standing" because there is at least 1 other Class 01 FFL in DC, who currently holds a valid "dealer" FFL...

Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center could legally (but refuses to) facilitate her transfer. He currently holds a valid Class 01 FFL and can do transfers under DCs and Federal laws. Sugarmann has held his Class 01 FFL since 1996.

Josh Sugarmann
Violence Policy Center
1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Suite 1014
Washington, DC 20036

Phone: (202) 822-8200
url: www.vpc.org

Sugarmann's complete FFL number is Number 1-54-000-01-8C-00725

Just sayin'...

Any reason this guy has an FFL working for the VPC?
 

Dreamer

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Any reason this guy has an FFL working for the VPC?


Josh Sugarmann doesn't just work FOR the VPC--he pretty much IS the VPC--He's been the president and primary mouthpiece for them for years....

Maybe he does transfers for other hypocritical sociopaths like Ted Kennedy, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Mikulski, Jane Fonda, and Carl Rowan...

However, considering that the address on his FFL is NOT zoned under DC law for "firearms sales", or for ANY sort of retail business, his applications to the BATFE for the last few decades are fraudulent, and therefore felonious, because to get a Class-01 FFL, you have to attest on your application that the address listed on the app is zoned for such a business.
 
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Washintonian_For_Liberty

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When government becomes despotic, it is time to ignore government.

When government uses force, coercion and violence against its people... it is time for its people to respond in kind.

Authoritarians only understand one thing... raw force.

If the people don't stand up and forcefully resist... they deserve their enslavement.
 

Alexcabbie

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When government becomes despotic, it is time to ignore government.

When government uses force, coercion and violence against its people... it is time for its people to respond in kind.

Authoritarians only understand one thing... raw force.

If the people don't stand up and forcefully resist... they deserve their enslavement.

When government becomes despotic, what you say may apply. But we are here talking about the government of the City of Washington, D.C.; which is composed of literally thousands of wannabe despots and resembles nothing so much as an episode of Dynasty that has rear-ended the "Amos 'n Andy Show"; with the whole mess getting T-boned by the "HMS PINAFORE".

Recently in D.C., a 15 year old kid opened fire on an MPDC cop, hitting him THREE TIMES. The other cops fired on the boy, but THEY MISSED! :cuss:

Come and live in Northern Virginia and watch the antics of these inept bumblers across the moat. And race has nothing to do with it. Councilman Jim Graham is white, and he is among the biggest fools on the City Council.

Pity the DC City police. Their chief, Kathy Lanier, came up through the ranks. Her heart is in the right place, law-enforcement wise. I believe she really and honestly wants to do her best to keep her city as safe as can be. But she is a protoge' of Chief Ramsey, who hailed from that land of the voting dead, Chicago. She subscribes to the notion that "guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people". Never mind that when people with guns kill people, the people they kill almost never have a gun of their own, thanks to the insane phiosophy that Ted Nugent boiled down to the following:

"Hmm. We have foxes killing the cats in the barnyard. Okay, so here's what we do: we de-claw the cats!"

It has been said that in America, the Several States are the "labaratories of Democracy".

And DC wants statehood? DC isn't a "labaratory of democracy". DC is a bunch of frat boys who have invited a gang of winos into the frat house for a fart-lighting contest.
 

Alexcabbie

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By the way, to illustrate the kind of kooks DC politics attracts; back in the 80s there waqs a Mayor's race, and in DC ANYBODY can get on the ballot. There was a radio show that interviewed the candidates, all of them.

The candidate for the "Socialist Worker's Party" ranted about "ending the imperialist aggression in El Salvador". She obviously had the office of a municipal mayor mixed up with the Presidency.

But among the most illustrative of the fringe candidates was a homeless dude who lived out of a pickup truck. When interviewed, he said his main goal would be to "clean this city up".

When he was asked how he would accomplish this goal, he then said:

"Well, fust; evvabody has to take a bath, with soap".

:banghead:

The government of the City of Washington, District of Columbia, is the epitome of what the leftists of the Democrat Party would envision for the entire nation.
 

EricDailey X-NRA

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KISS: keeping it simple Sam

The solution is simple. Take the responsibility for gun law away from DC. The Congress should pass a law that immediately repeals any and all laws in DC regarding guns and bars the use of any other DC law to, in any way, to restrict the right to carry. The repeal would include any laws that impede the operation of FFL license holders from operating a retail outlet in DC.

The giant whooshing sound would be the influx of legally-owned firearms and dealers rushing to fill the void. There would be a large amount of gunfire for a while, then the final sound would be the crime rate rocketing earthward....

+1

Presumably Wayne LaPierre and his brilliant leadership team in the NRA HQ in the DC area know this solution. I sometimes like to imagine the results if WL got out in front of the public and hollered to all US gun owners to flood Congress with demands to implement the above or any of a list of other solutions. Does anyone remember how fast congress jumped when several years ago the public demanded that they be able to be removed from telemarketing call lists. We got a law to solve the problem in about 24 hours. All except for campaign calls from Congress of course.

Yep, I'm sure ol' WL and his boys at the Gun Palace will be getting to this task any day now.
 
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