No constitutional right is absolute...

[PisnNapalm]

Unbelievable....

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...JKdG2QD9542UVG0

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia Council passed more regulations for gun owners Tuesday, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the city's 32-year-old handgun ban.

Among other things, the bill requires gun owners to register their weapons every three years and receive training by a certified firearms instructor.

"This bill will be, I think, one of the most progressive registration laws in the country," Council member Phil Mendelson said.

The National Rifle Association accused the city of forcing residents to jump through unnecessary hurdles, thereby undermining the intent of the Supreme Court's ruling in June that affirmed the right of Americans to keep guns in the home for self defense.

"The D.C. Council continues to try to make it harder and harder for law-abiding citizens to access this freedom," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said.

In September, the House passed an NRA-backed bill that would have essentially stripped the city of its ability to regulate firearms, but the measure died in the Senate.

D.C. leaders say they are trying to be respectful of the Supreme Court case while doing everything they can to enact strict gun control measures in a city where gun violence is common.

"No constitutional right is absolute, nor is this right to possess a gun in the home for self defense," said councilwoman Mary Cheh, a law professor at George Washington University.

Since the handgun ban was overturned, the council has passed legislation allowing residents to own most semiautomatic pistols while banning magazines capable of firing more than 10 rounds. Registration also is limited to one pistol a month, and gun owners face prosecution if they fail to keep loaded weapons away from children.

Tuesday's bill builds on those regulations. It requires gun owners to spend at least one hour at the firing range and four hours in the classroom with an instructor before registration. The bill also requires a criminal background check for gun owners every six years.

Just wait until Obama get's into the White House.

We'll see this kind of tyranny on an unprecedented scale in the U.S.S.A.

[X-Terminator]

No Constitiutional right is absolute? Is she serious??? What, the Constitution and BofR are just pieces of paper to be balled up and thrown in the garbage to her?

Look, I don't like or own guns. But I'll definitely speak up for a person's right to own them and carry them.

[augustashark]

[Dino 6 Rings]

yeah...nice...

Pretty sure the Bill of Rights aren't going to be changed by ANYONE without a Civil War being fought first.

Those who want to uphold the True Constitution vs those would Change it.

I know what corner I'm in.

I don't remember who it was...

but someone this fall was touting how important it was to have a consitutional lawyer in the whitehouse....


Well, here is a law professor... yeah, no thanks.

[fansince'76]

Originally Posted by Preacher

I don't remember who it was...

but someone this fall was touting how important it was to have a consitutional lawyer in the whitehouse....


Well, here is a law professor... yeah, no thanks.

This after 8 years of nonstop screeching about so-called "illegal" wiretaps and how GWB's administration has supposedly trampled all over the Bill of Rights. Ironic. "No constitutional right is absolute...particularly the ones we don't like."

[tony hipchest]

Among other things, the bill requires gun owners to register their weapons every three years and receive training by a certified firearms instructor.

hopefully this keeps dumbasses like plaxico burress from thinking that the waistband of ones "draws" is the appropriate place to illegally conceal a gun, while out in public, as opposed to shooting oneself in the leg and ruining a perfectly good career (let alone wasting an innocent bystander).

seriously, how many here would defend pac man jones or chris henry's right to "bear arms".

just cause we administer morphine in hospitals, doesnt mean it should be sold at the corner store to 11 year olds.

[MACH1]

Originally Posted by PisnNapalm

Just wait until Obama get's into the White House.

We'll see this kind of tyranny on an unprecedented scale in the U.S.S.A.

Yep, He's gonna screw all 57 states out of their constitutional right.

[SteelCurtain7]

Originally Posted by X-Terminator

No Constitiutional right is absolute? Is she serious??? What, the Constitution and BofR are just pieces of paper to be balled up and thrown in the garbage to her?

Look, I don't like or own guns. But I'll definitely speak up for a person's right to own them and carry them.

Truth.

[Hammer67]

Originally Posted by tony hipchest

hopefully this keeps dumbasses like plaxico burress from thinking that the waistband of ones "draws" is the appropriate place to illegally conceal a gun, while out in public, as opposed to shooting oneself in the leg and ruining a perfectly good career (let alone wasting an innocent bystander).

seriously, how many here would defend pac man jones or chris henry's right to "bear arms".

just cause we administer morphine in hospitals, doesnt mean it should be sold at the corner store to 11 year olds.

Except, for the fact that Burress had his gun ILLEGALLY...so obviously, the law barely applies to knuckleheads who should be prosecuted. These kinds of laws only hamper law abiding citizens like my uncle, a rare gun collector.

Thugs and gang members usually fail mandatory background checks so they get their weapons the old fashioned way, they steal them.