WashPo on getting a handgun in DC

I remember reading that when it came out. Since he was expensing it, he should have gotten something nicer than a used Taurus - not that there is anything wrong with it - but he could have done better. He also needs to get his wife out shooting. I think the NSSF is targeting areas like DC with their First Shots program.

Yeah, he should have gotten a Korth. Gold plated and all.

Interesting article. It appears as though the right of the people of D.C. to keep and bear (and procure and transport) arms is still being infringed.

So he just told every criminal in the DC area that he is returning the firearm? Wow if i was a bad guy i think i'd look up his address, since i know he won't fight back.

Still sounds like a ways to go for a enumerated right Right written into the Bill of Rights instead of something in the Constitution's emanations and penumbra.

I wonder how it compares to getting an abortion? And shouldn't that be the test?

Yea, just imagine if you had to jump through the same crap to get an abortion or to vote. The deep thinkers in the black robes would come down on these rules like a elephant stomping on a egg. Sure is a funny system that we maintain.

Headline: "Women and minorities hardest hit ..."

To me, the most interesting thing about that essay is the innocent tone with which the writer describes his namby-pamby attitude and that of his wife and friends. I think he really doesn't recognize how babyish he sounds to us Westerners. Out on this coast the equivalent story (Nicole Brodeur in the Seattle Times comes to mind), besides involving less gov't harassment, comes with much less infantalism, and no suggestion that the reader should be impressed by the remarkable courage a nominally-male reporter has to show to hold a gun in his hand (much less defy his wife by bringing it home).

"a weapon that can send a piece of metal the size of a thimble hurtling through space with such speed that it could make someone's head explode. "

"the muzzle dances wildly around, pointing its deadly black eye all over the room. "

Sheesh. What a drama queen.

Furshlugginer ... plus 1000.

David ...

Can you or do you want to comment on Chicago's amici?? Been checking your site for the last 4 days in hopes of seeing some commentary!

Andy ... plus 1000 too.

"The first shots are an absolute shock, a full-body experience I feel in my shoulders, hips and knees. The gun doesn't fire so much as explode, kicking back ferociously, releasing a hot whiff of air and a bright red flash from the muzzle. It's louder, more violent and more cannonlike than I expected, and I realize that part of me is more than nervous. I'm a little scared. But also thrilled. There is a rush, a blood-pumping high, which builds with each shot as the once foreign sensation becomes more familiar and evokes a basic, even primitive, emotion. Like Zeus throwing lightning bolts, I control that frightening explosion. I make the red flash. I make the smoke curl from the muzzle."

Like Zeus throwing lightning bolts? Jesus Christ. That guy needs to get out a little ...

Sounds like a metrosexual who's emotionally torn about whether he could ever do anything as manly as protecting himself and his family.

In the end, of course, the wife wins.

Glad that familial ordeal is over. The home is free of any scary inanimate objects. Whew. He earned himself a glass of chardonnay.

Good God what a wimp!

And there is one guy in DC who is willing to transfer a handgun to someone not working for law enforcement? And for this he charges $125!!! Geeze, don't do me any favors buddy!

I think I need to move to DC and get myself an FFL...

I found the stereotyping of women very upsetting. My wife likes firearms, as do most of the women that I know. As A matter of fact I was talking to my union representative a couple of years ago and she told me that she would like to have a couple of firearms in her house but her husband did not "feel comfortable" with guns in the house.

@Jim,

I would hazard to guess that the reason the guy doing the transfers charges $125 is because he has to physically import the gun himself.

That said, out here in California, $100 transfer fees for out of state/internet purchases aren't all that uncommon. It might just be one of those cost-of-living things.