If your child came across a gun, what do you think they would do with it? Tell an adult? Pick it up? Pull the trigger?

We wanted to try something. With a Northside ISD police officer’s help, we put a group of children in a room with a real, unloaded gun to see what they would do when they thought no one was watching.

We want to emphasize: News 4 and a police officer took every precaution to make sure these children were never in danger.

Except that part about leaving kids alone with a fucking gun.

The only application received yesterday was from a woman who brought a revolver to the registration office under the amnesty program, officials said.

After the gun was test-fired and the woman completed registration paperwork and a written test, she went home with the gun to await a decision on her application.

By law, she must keep the gun in her home, unloaded and either disassembled or fitted with a trigger lock, and she is not allowed to use it, even for self-defense, unless her application is approved. The process involves a background check for disqualifying factors such as a felony record or history of mental illness.

And Dick Heller is running for office as a Libertarian against Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is stupid.

The TAC-S in 45: Well, it’s 45. Slim and snag free design. And some folks love the LDA trigger. And some folks can’t stand the trigger. And I actually carry a 45.

The LTC in 9mm: It’s a 9mm but if we’re gonna fire 1,500 rounds, that may be easier to deal with. Also, I prefer a single action trigger. Just preference. So, which would you choose:

However, the judgment in this case relates only to the provisions that were struck down, and the city appears to be complying with the literal command of the judgment.

Good.

And my sooper seekrit sources tell me that the first person to register a firearm in DC is a woman by the name of *redacted*. There are supposed to be two interviews with her, one from NRA News and one from the Washington Times. I haven’t found them yet.

Update: Due to reasons pointed out in comments, name is gone.

Thanks to a tip from WizardPC, as of this writing, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has the number one spot on Google for Carry Permit Holders. So, we’ll fix that: Carry Permit Holders

Last time it took 20 minutes. It’s now 9:15a.m.

Because that’s what they do - they charge people. They don’t search for Justice. They charge people. They are probably reviewed on whether or not they charge (and convict) enough people in a given time.

What specific firearm did Dick Heller try to register in the beginning?

People make reference to 5-4 on a .38 revolver but that was his duty weapon. And, IIRC, the order was to allow registration of his weapon. So, what did he try to register? Some say his 45 and others say a Beretta 92. But I cannot find a cite in any court docs that state what he tried to register.

Update: SM’s google-fu is mighty:

he applied for a permit for his high standard buntline .22 revolver

Link.

Then he has standing to sue since the handgun is the quintessential self-defense weapon. And the semi-automatic is the quintessential handgun.

Every day, I am thankful that Fenty is a moron. And our side is smart.

Update: Heller 2: The city has rejected me again,

Can anyone confirm?

Update: Confirmed - sorta:

In the first hours of the first day that it was legally possible to register handguns in the nation’s capital, only one person showed up to do so–and he was turned away because he didn’t bring his weapon with him.

Capitol Hill resident Dick A. Heller, whose lawsuit prompted the landmark Supreme Court ruling that scuttled the city’s strict firearms control laws, arrived at D.C. police headquarters at 6:30 a.m., a full 30 minutes before the new gun registration office was scheduled to open.

Heller, accompanied by his attorney, was met on the steps of the building by a cluster of camera crews and Lieutenant Jon Shelton, head of the firearms registration unit. In an animated discussion, police explained to Heller that he needed to show officials the guns he wanted to register — and allow them to be test-fired — as part of the registration process.

Heller’s attorney, Dane von Breichenruchardt, said Heller owns at least two handguns — a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a 9-shot, .22-caliber revolver — and has stored them for years with a friend in Maryland. Although officials said that gun owners in Heller’s situation can bring legally owned firearms from other jurisdictions into the District in order to register them, the attorney said he had told Heller not to do so without written assurance that it was permissible.

Ask just about any gun rights advocate where criminals get their guns, and most will immediately tell you that they steal them from law-abiding gun owners. Unfortunately, a few months ago, I unwittingly contributed to that problem. The worst part is, I didn’t even notice until yesterday.

I had stored a couple of handguns up there, ironically so that they wouldn’t get stolen (I had gone on vacation, and the thinking was that if anyone breaks into the house while I’m gone, they won’t go up there, so whatever they get, they won’t get the guns). I don’t yet have a safe — I’ve been procrastinating on that for a couple of years now, I’m afraid — so this seemed like a logical choice. Since nobody ever goes in our attic but me, and we don’t have children in the house, the two gun cases were more or less in plain sight, once you got into the attic. One was locked, the other was unlocked. The locked case contained a .22 varmint pistol, and the unlocked case contained a .40 S&W.

A couple of months ago, I had some contractors working in my attic. They were up there unattended for several hours. I had forgotten that I stashed the guns up there, so I didn’t think anything of it. Yesterday, I went up to go get the .40 to take it to the range (life’s been busy, and the range is a ways away, so it’s been months since I’ve been able to go). The locked case with the .22 was still there, more or less where I remembered putting it. The unlocked case, the one with the .40, was missing.

Panic set in, and I just felt sick inside. I tore apart the house, hoping against hope that I had moved the .40 and simply forgotten I’d done so. I checked all the places where I’ve ever stored it, and several where I never did, to no avail. No trace. Finally, I decided to do a more thorough search of the attic. And it was up there, inside a blue plastic storage container, that I found the conclusive proof: the empty gun case had been hastily dumped in there, wide open, along with the holster. The .40 and all three magazines were gone. That sick feeling just got worse.

I called the police and filed a report, but months after the fact, there’s only so much they can do. Worse, that particular gun was a gift, and I hadn’t bothered to write down the serial number anywhere, meaning that the odds of ever recovering the piece drop from “pretty remote” to “zero.” (I called the guy who gave me the gun; he didn’t have a record of the S/N, either.) The loss of the gun isn’t that big a deal to me; it’s the thought that my gun, a gun I’m responsible for, could wind up in the hands of some thug, and someone could be hurt or even killed with it. If that happened, I don’t know if I could live with myself.

Now, I’ve always been of the (somewhat outspoken) opinion that we as gun owners bear additional responsibility because of the very nature of the tool we choose to own. And in that regard, not only did I fail to live by my principles, I let all gun owners down. I’ve unwittingly contributed to the gun-grabbers’ argument that we can’t be trusted, that guns are too dangerous to just have “out there,” blah blah blah. And for that, too, I am deeply sorry.

The thing that has me kicking myself the most about all of this is how easily it could have been prevented. Not only did I not do everything I should have done to prevent the gun from being stolen; I didn’t even take basic, reasonable precautions that would have taken almost no time and cost almost no money. The locked gun case, the one with the .22 in it, wasn’t tampered with. How fucking hard would it have been to put a padlock on the case? Yet I procrastinated, and I didn’t do it. I didn’t buy a safe — there were always “more important” priorities. Some friends have tried to calm me down, saying that it’s not my fault that some scumbag stole the gun. Maybe not, but it’s certainly my fault that it was so easy for them.

My only hope in writing this is that you learn from my mistake, and don’t repeat it. Don’t be a shithead when it comes to your guns. When they’re not on you or with you, lock them up. Preferably in a safe. Don’t make it easy for the wrong people to get their hands on them. I’ve learned my lesson, but unfortunately, it’s too late.

You mentioned the gun position. I’ve been talking about the Second Amendment being an individual right for the last year and a half. So there wasn’t a shift there.

We’re trying to figure out how close we can get to where we were before.