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« A busy time for Heller commentary | Main | Debate on Chicago cases »

Battle with DC motor vehicle licensing

Posted by David Hardy · 13 January 2009 08:42 AM

NRA's General Counsel's Office just won it. (pdf). Motor Vehicles refused a custom plate of "TRIGGER" because it "may" offend certain people. They wound up backing down.

11 Comments | Leave a comment

Bill | January 13, 2009 9:17 AM | Reply

Oh good lord. Please, please, please tell me this whole thing is satire.

This is just absolutely ridiculous and absurd. Who are these far-left, overly-PC, moderators of public sensibilities running this agency? They think they actually have the legal authority to arbitrarily decide which messages "may" be offensive to somebody? And then they think that someone might find "TRIGGER" offensive?

Jeez Louise, who are these incredible morons?

Is there anything so mind-numbingly inept, inane and just plain stupid as the low-level bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.?

lewis1914 | January 13, 2009 10:07 AM | Reply

In response to your question "Is there anything so mind-numbingly inept, inane and just plain stupid as the low-level bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.?"

The answer is yes -- the high-level bureaucracy is worse.

Jim K | January 13, 2009 10:44 AM | Reply

I suppose under this level of intelligence Roy Rogers would have had to have renamed his horse.

bill | January 13, 2009 11:40 AM | Reply

I just got to go with, liberals are born without brains. Goo fills the cavity.

doug in colorado | January 13, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply

when you see all the varieties of combinations of phonetic obscenities that get put out on both vanity and regular plates, it's totally absurd to think that TRIGGER is anything but someone who likes Trigonometry...

Chuck | January 13, 2009 3:00 PM | Reply

And why on earth would we think that a goverment that does not understand 2A, would handle 1A any better? AND, I don't like coversations about registering cars...that always leads to a suggestion from the antis that if we can register cars then we can register...

Tom | January 13, 2009 3:18 PM | Reply

THIS is what NRA considers to be a good use of time? Jack squat on Holder but they're out there playing 1st amdt guardians?

Chuck | January 13, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply

Not defending NRA, but they did send a letter to chair and ranking member expressing displeasure

Now about that 1986 machine gun thing. Wow what a stimulus. 200 dollar tax...jobs, spending. and the pent up demand, I know i would get three.

CDR D | January 13, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply

>>>I just got to go with, liberals are born without brains. Goo fills the cavity.


Same stuff that is evacuated from that place just under Trigger's tail.

Jeff Showell | January 14, 2009 6:29 AM | Reply

This kind of narrowness is not limited to the left wing. In the late 80's in Arizona, for instance, a administrative appointee of the far right wing Governor Evan Mecham tried to revoke the already existing personalized license plate JAZZ ME, which belonged to the professor of jazz at the University of Arizona.

bud | January 15, 2009 10:53 AM | Reply

Jeff, that's because everybody (well, at least etymolgists and blue-nose appointees) knows that "jazz", as well as "rock and roll" were minority sub-culture euphemisms for the good ol' horizontal mambo.

If I saw a license plate saying "trigger", I'd assume the owner was a Roy Rogers fan. Revealing my age, ain't I?

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