Saw this through Instapundit. Comments:

-If you're between 18 and 21, you have to have your parents' permission. How does that work exactly? In pretty much every other respect, when you turn 18, that's the time where you no longer need your parents' permission and are considered an adult.

-It's not possible to get a firearm permit in DC unless you're a resident there. If you commute into town, you're out of luck.

-You're only permitted to have the gun at home and when traveling directly to or from a lawful place to use the gun, and in the latter case it has to be unloaded and locked away.

-You're not allowed to own ammunition for a gun unless you have a license for a gun that can shoot that ammunition, unless you're a dealer.

-You're legally responsible for having the certificate of gun registration on you at all times when transporting the gun. (This could be minor if it's conveniently credit-card sized or a major pain in the butt "papers please", and I don't know which.)

-You can't get a license unless you've had a classroom instruction and range course from one of maybe forty or fifty "certified instructors" in DC. There's a provision for accepting other certification, but since it's not "shall issue", good luck getting it.

-No renting guns from a range. Guess you'd better travel to Virginia to try out a new gun. You're not permitted to loan someone a gun either.

-The list of banned guns includes everything from the old "assault weapon" list, any pistol that isn't certified for sale in California, and is subject to change at any time - oh, they retain the right to change their mind about gun eligibility, and if they do change their mind, they will come take your gun or force you to dispose of it. And any .50 cal is banned as well. Sigh...

You know, when I was at the Republican state convention in '92, the Black Panthers had planned a protest march. At some point it occurred to someone that they had every right to march around with rifles in their hands, so long as the rifles weren't actually loaded at the time; and so the protest march occurred with many of the protesters carrying weapons (presumably unloaded).

I stepped outside to watch and thought to myself, "Man, I'm less than five hundred feet away from hundreds of angry black men with guns, and I'm completely safe. I love this country!" I guess it never occurred to me to think "I love this state!" instead, but there you have it. It is good to be a Texan.

I've always thought that the key to gun safety was merely responsible ownership of weapons, and nothing that I've seen since has lead me to believe otherwise. I guess they don't agree in some jurisdictions. I wonder how many of those regulations are going to have to be held unconstitutional before DC decides to knock it off...

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