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Bob Levy and the real story behind DC gun registration
He has an op-ed In the WashPo on the matter. The Post earlier carried a story to the effect that handgun registration (while, as Levy notes, very low) was much higher as a percent of households in wealthy DC zip codes than in poor areas, with the implication that somehow gun ownership was a privilege of the wealthy who lived in low crime areas. Levy responds that this is not surprising, considering that DC has made registration a process that costs over $800, plus 16 hours of personal effort, and requiring multiple trips during working hours. "More litigation is sure to follow."
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Your readers may be interested in Googling “Kris Hammond, DC Libertarian Examiner”, "How to buy and register a handgun in the District of Columbia: a survival guide"
I must assume that poorer D.C. residents can't afford good guns AND the horrendously expensive acquisition/registration process. Maybe that's why you find so many "junk" guns (thank goodness) on D.C.'s streets. Remember: “No registration” does not equal “no guns.” As long as we have criminals, we will have stolen or black-market guns.
Also likely: People in poorer neighborhoods have more felony convictions and domestic violence misdemeanor convictions per capita than the more affluent. Those convictions bar them from ever lawfully possessing firearms. Did the author suggest the latter as a possibility, or suggest it for future research or a follow-up article? No.
It's too hard for the original "journalist" (not Levy) to do real research or, I don't know, maybe ask somebody who's tried it...or maybe even try it himself, as a "journalistic exercise"...go buy and register a gun and, you know, just kinda make notes on what it cost and how much personal time off from work it would have taken, if it wasn't being done on the clock...
Duh...that's why there are more of them in the so called "safe" and "rich" zip codes than in the "poor" and "crime ridden" areas....