A Positive Public Relations Opportunity
Subject: A Positive Public Relations Opportunity
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:30:38 -0400
Mr. Robert J Browning
Chief, Public Affairs Division
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives
Office of Public and Government Affairs
99 New York Avenue NE
Mailstop 5S144
Washington DC 20226
Sir:
I receive a publication entitled "The Shooting Wire" via email. In the July 23, 2008 edition, the first seven paragraphs of an article by Jim Shepherd are devoted to the situation in Washington DC post Heller. In paragraph five he ponders the lack of a FFL holder in the district to effect a transfer of a firearm to residents from dealers in surrounding states.
My suggestion is for ATFE to assume this duty until a FFL holder establishes a business for this purpose in the District of Columbia.
I can forsee a very positive response from gun owners and Gun Rights Organizations such as The National Rifle Association and from Congress .
I broached this idea to two internet gun bloggers and one of them, Mr. David Codrea responded that he did not approve it. We exchanged emails and he offered to publish an essay advocating my idea on his blog "War on Guns".
Sincerely,
Sam W
Ummmm...Mr Rat, can you hold this cheese for me?
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant! We should do that everywhere--not just in DC. That way, we could finally get past the debate about a federal gun registry.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, I wonder if he's right--I'll bet there are enough gun owners who like the taste of jackboot on their tongues that such a move will be a PR coup for them.
Reminiscient of the good Jews turning in their guns after the 1934decree by the Nazis that all Jews were verboten to have arms.BATFECES is a monstrosity, and not an arm of the fedgov. They are not responsible to the Congress, the courts, and least of all, to the people who PAY THEIR WAGES. To me, no better than the Gestapo, with a little SA thrown in. I will come the aid of BATFE when they bring back to life Randy Weavers' wife and son, and all the people they murdered in Waco, when they exonerate Wayne Fincher, and David Olafson, with an apology and 10 million dollars, and all the others who have been railroaded into prison and ruin. All they care about is the power to grind us down to the dust. They have been weighed. They have been measured. And they have been found wanting.
ReplyDeleteI think that the lack of an FFL in DC who is unwilling to sell or transfer guns to anyone not a police officer or a federal agent of some kind would provide a basis for some DC resident to challenge that part of the 1968 Gun Control Act that requires you to purchase a handgun from an FFL in your state (DC being explicitly defined as a "state" for that purpose in the GCA). Why? Because as of now, the only ones who can register handguns in DC are those who have a revolver outside of the city (or who can buy one outside now) because they were or are residents of another state. So you have an Equal Protection issue.
ReplyDeleteHello, Mr. Gura: Go back to any of the other 5 original plaintiffs in your suit, find one that has been a life-long resident of DC who wants to own a revolver, and then sue.
Either that, or get a few people to apply to BATFE to become FFLs in DC - and see if they're turned down based on DC zoning laws. If so, sue.
I'd support this only, and I repeat only, if they tried to shut themselves down because somebody wrote 'DC' instead of District of Columbia on the 4473.
ReplyDeleteOh thank you, I'll just rest my head beneath this guillotine thank you ... my this is comfortable.
ReplyDeleteIdiot.
Then 9/10ths of everybody's gun safes and spare parts will become be machine guns, right?
ReplyDeleteSure...
But there is an FFL in DC.......
ReplyDeleteJosh Sugarmann! The head of the VPC!
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/the_quintessenc.php