House GOP Proposes to Repeal D.C. Gun Bans

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18935-2004Sep13?language=printer

A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is supporting legislation that would repeal virtually all of the District's gun restrictions, targeting one of the nation's most stringent handgun bans while the presidential candidates are battling over gun limits.

Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.) said House Republican leaders have promised him a vote before the Nov. 2 election on his proposed D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end a ban on handguns in the nation's capital; remove a prohibition against semiautomatic weapons; lift registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms; and cancel criminal penalties for possessing unregistered firearms and carrying a handgun in one's home or workplace.

Souder's bill also would deny the District's elected officials "authority to enact laws or regulations that discourage or eliminate the private ownership or use of firearms." The legislation has 228 co-sponsors, more than enough to clear the 435-member House.

Both sides say prospects for passage are dubious in the U.S. Senate, where advocates of gun restrictions prevailed on two high-profile votes in March. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has sponsored a bill similar to Souder's that is languishing in a panel headed by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

[FeebMaster]

1. I don't support this.

Clearly DC wouldn't be as safe as it is without the gun control it currently has.

[Gman]

2. I guess the right wing sees the Final Solution as having the Negroes

in D.C. kill each other off. They probably already calculated what they would save in AFDC, SSI, etc. More money for Iraq and later Syria & Iran.

[w4rma]

3. This sort of surprises me, since this law will allow folks to get closer

to these Ivory Tower Repugs with guns out in the open and no officer can tell someone to put them away, since they'll be legal.

[Frances]

4. LOL

It would be ironic if one of these congressmen fell victim to their own stupidity.

Edit, on second thought it would even more ironic if two to them did each other in over a gay lover!

[Terry_M]

5. Yeah, I hope if they do this

that they go far enough that it'll be legal to walk right outside the white house with grenade launchers and ak47s.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Those congresscritters will be sorry once they realize

they've armed a grassroots militia. If Bush wins, I shudder to think about so many people with greater access including assault weapons. :scared: