From a reader: According to NBC4, Heller was denied registration.

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.

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I’m part of the problem

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.

Since assault weapons are weapons of war, designed to be sprayfired from the hip as a bullet hose to kill as many people as quickly as possible, why are police in Chicago getting them?

Barack Color Me Badd Obama:

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.

It is apparently ludicrous to question denying someone their civil rights without due process of law.

What they’re up against:

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

In case you were wondering: Whatever happened to that moron in that YouTube video?

They’re copying and pasting Brady Campaign talking points?

In Chicgao, suggestions that state police and the national guard be called in to deal with all the gun crime. Where guns are banned, I would think there wouldn’t be any need to come confiscate guns.

More info on the recall.

Seen at Volokh’s:

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, holding that the Second Amendment protects a limited individual right to possess a firearm — unconnected with service in a militia — does not alter our conclusion. Under Heller, individuals still do not have the right to possess machineguns or short-barreled rifles, as Gilbert did, and convicted felons, such as Gilbert, do not have the right to possess any firearms

No surprise, really. SCOTUS went 5-4 on a revolver even though it went 9-0 on individual right.

Glenn Reynolds and Brannon Denning: Heller’s Future in the Lower Courts.

Over at NRA Blog!

Self-defense coming back to where Great Britain used to be:

Home owners and “have-a go-heroes” have for the first time been given the legal right to defend themselves against burglars and muggers free from fear of prosecution.

Expect people to shocked when crime goes down.

Gun registration starts tomorrow morning. Looks like a slow, tedious, bureaucratic process designed to be as big a pain in the ass as possible. Get ready for Heller 2.

So, McCain adviser Phil Gramm was talking economics. He forgot the rules about talking economics with your average American and actually told the truth and used small words to make sure we could understand him. He said it’s not that bad. And he’s right.

Then, he said that America is a nation of whiners. And we righteous Americans were angered by that. So, we showed our anger by, uh, whining about what he said.

Suppressed revolver.

Guns, knives, pointy sticks and hats. Oh my.

Post Heller, DC is looking to erect as many barrier to gun ownership as it can. Here’s some commentary on their ridiculous proposals:

Reader Harold:

The registration is explicitly “may issue”.

Like NYC, they can delay or obstruct by never giving you a form (say, after the spotlight has moved from D.C.).

The currently described as “written” test must be passed with 75% proficiency, contents and nature now or in the future unspecified.

Along with the “reasonable” fees.

Only the registrant can carry the pistol from room to room.

John Snow:

Washington D.C.’s politicos haven’t quite embraced the meaning of the Second Amendment even in the post-Heller era.

The Other Biased Washington Paper’s Editorial:

Mayor Adrian Fenty yesterday proposed regulations for gun ownership rife with inconsistencies, unenforcable requirements and policies proven to be ineffective. It is clear that the D.C. Council has no intention of taking a reasonable track toward responsible gun ownership. Seemingly, City Hall intends to make it as difficult as possible for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.

Same paper:

“They’re doing everything that they can to not comply with the Supreme Court ruling,” said Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, who dismissed the proposed legislation as “a joke.”

“Unless the criminal calls you beforehand and lets you know he’s coming over … you’re going to be left defenseless,” Mr. Cox said.

Over at GOP USA.

An ongoing series

Ok, it’s actually Military Vehicle Porn. But still, cool stuff.

Via Curt, we learn that the reader who won a slot to train with Todd Jarrett is Armed School Teacher.

Registration does not work.

There are things that are true that we cannot say about Barack Redacted Obama. We cannot, for instance, use his middle name. Because it’s Hussein. And that sounds really similar to Saddam’s last name. We also cannot say he went to a Muslim school when he was young, even though he said he did in his autobigraphy.

Because if you do, you’re a racist.

Or something.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership clings to relevance:

Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center, said Heller means the gun lobby’s “slippery slope” argument — that gun-control measures will eventually lead to an all-out ownership ban — is now moot.

Listen up, Sparky, what their ruling means is your desire to ban guns is no longer viable.

Stag Arms in the news.

Now, a radio show. You can get the MP3 version here.

Looks like Caleb was alone with Squeaky, Tracy and Breda.

Sabre Defence (which cannot spell Saber nor Defense) of Nashville has been awarded a military contract.

In airgun form.