If They Can’t Track 36K Guns, What Are They Going to Do with a City Full of Them?
Before the DC City Government gets their boxer shorts in an even more tightly bunched wad over the Heller decision, there are a couple things it really needs to do.
The first thing, as I noted before, is to actually read the decision so it doesn’t end up tromping all over the Constitution again.
The second thing is to find the 36,000 registered handguns it’s already supposed to know about. These guns were registered with the city before the ban went into place in 1976 and the city is supposed to know exactly where they are and exactly who has them. That’s kind of the point of requiring their registration.
This story is just a little bit important because the city is going to be requiring all its handgun-owning citizens to register their guns using the excuse that DC residents will be safer if the city knows who has guns and where those guns are. The city council is pushing very hard to get the gun laws into place as soon as possible and the members are not taking much care at all to make sure that the the city can actually do what the laws will need to be even marginally effective. The punch line to this bureaucratic joke is that there are only 41,000 guns registered with the city. Or, to put it another way, the city has lost almost 88 percent of the guns it took responsibility for tracking.
That shouldn’t come as such a shock to anyone who lives in or around DC. Just a couple months ago, an auditor found that the police department is missing a few guns from its evidence warehouse, too.
And those are just the guns owned by law-abiding people. Goodness knows how many guns are in the city in the hands of people who could care less about some piddling registration law because they’ve already committed a couple robberies and shot a person or three.
But they’re not the threat, my law-abiding friends in DC. According to the city and the gun-control alarmists, you are. This newest SNAFU from the city ought to be ample reason for the government to slow down and breathe a little bit before it starts slapping new restrictions on your Constitutional rights. It won’t, of course. But it should.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Your Sparklers are Safe, DC!
- Welcome Back, Officer Shifty McIncompetent!
- SCOTUS Says You Do Have an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Category: Guns Guns Guns, The Good Old US of A
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