by DC Handgun Info
July 31, 2011
DC Handgun Info
If you have a wife or girlfriend that doesn’t allow you to have a loaded gun in the house, you have a much more serious problem than I can address here, and you have failed at the mate-selection
process.
If you have a significant other (of either sex!), that person has to be on board with you in your self-defense thinking. For the male chauvinists out there: This happens to real people — even people you may know, so you can stop laughing. Some wives need to be convinced. Maybe you could order and read together Kathy Jackson’s The Cornered Cat: A Woman’s Guide to Concealed Carry. It’s very helpful. The most unusual thing in it is her understanding that a woman can decide based on her evaluation of her own situation that she (or even you, the male reader) may not be ready for the responsbility of carrying a gun for self-defense (whether in the house or on the street, where permissible by law).
At the risk of sounding paranoid, Mr. Quinn at Gunblast.com asks, if you own a gun for self-defense in the home, can you reach it? Many people think such a question is weird, but much weirder to me are hoods who feel they can smash their way into my house, to do a "home invasion." You have to stop these guys if they come into your house or you could end up hurting big-time or dead. Read the linked article, ponder the question, and act on it.
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GUN REMOVAL ADVISORY SERVICES AVAILABLE
Do you have a gun in your house that you don’t want anymore (found when you moved in? inherited?), please contact me, and we can discuss how to get rid of it. E-mail me at leeadvisor (at) hotmail (.) com. 
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by DC Handgun Info
July 20, 2011
DC Handgun Info
DC’s Zoning Commission Allows For Gun Registration at Police Stations(!)
If you haven’t been following the saga of D.C. post-Heller, you won’t know that only one FFL (federal firearms licensee) was willing to sell to the public. He lost his lease and found the zoning regs in D.C. so tough that he could not find another store. That created a de facto ban on gun transfers, so this is BIG NEWS.
I personally think that government forces in the District of Columbia (the D.C. City Council, the Mayor, and the Zoning Commission) were afraid of being sued by The Mighty Alan Gura(TM), and then having to pay his legal fees! He won the DC v. Heller case and overturned Chicago’s ridiculous ban on handguns (with help from the Second Amendment Foundation and many unsung heroes who joined the case as "amici" or friends of the case on the side of the angels: Gura & Co.) He is one amazing guy.
What I find really weird is that only about 1,000 guns have been registered in D.C. since the ban ended effective summer 2008, according to some press reports. Maybe too many people in DC have lost loved ones to criminal violence (NOT "gun" violence), or too many people have criminal records — I’m just speculating. Paging Dr. Lott: Why does D.C. have such low registration numbers?
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If you have a gun and want to travel with it, you will want to stay on the right side of the law, so click below to purchase this book, a terrific resource to help you "know before you go."
2011 United States Traveler’s Guide To The Firearm Laws of the 50 States
NOTE: It’s updated annually, so stay on top of the law (and out of jail) by buying one every year. You probably didn’t know that several states require NO PERMIT to carry openly or concealed. Read the Traveler’s Guide to learn which states are "constitutional carry" states. I’ll give you one: Vermont.
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