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Title: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: Hazcat on February 13, 2008, 02:04:56 PM
Josh Sugarmann, head of Violence Policy Center, has a Federal Firearm Dealer's license. The business address is VPC's headquarters in D.C.. Which, if I recollect DC law correctly, means VPC is exempt from the handgun ban

More at link http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/the_quintessenc.php

IS THIS TRUE??  MB, can you find out?
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: DDMac on February 13, 2008, 02:42:39 PM
The answer to both questions is yes. He has one, and he is exempt.  Checked the FFL licensing system and read the DC gun law.  Mac.
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: Hazcat on February 13, 2008, 02:50:36 PM
WOW!  Talk about HYPOCRISY!
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: DDMac on February 13, 2008, 03:03:48 PM
Hey, SOMEBODY has to make money selling guns to all the LEOs in DC, right? So who would the local authorities want to empower if not a like-minded friend?    Mac
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: Hazcat on February 13, 2008, 03:16:49 PM
Hey, SOMEBODY has to make money selling guns to all the LEOs in DC, right? So who would the local authorities want to empower if not a like-minded friend?    Mac

Do you think he has actually done any business?  Or is it a way to get around having a firearm  on premises?

Also with VPC being a non profit this would seem to be a "no no".
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: DDMac on February 13, 2008, 03:48:52 PM
Haz, he has to make sales, or the license application is fraudulent (not that a DC prosecutor would necessarily indict). An FFL can be held at one multiple business location that are not related to each other, ie. a muffler shop that also has an FFL on site.. His FFL is issued to an individual.
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: Outlaw on February 13, 2008, 05:18:42 PM
If they lift the D.C. Gun Ban he'll probably make a fortune selling handguns to homeowners. ;D What a hypocritical ass >:(
Title: Re: VPC Sugarman has an FFL??
Post by: DDMac on February 13, 2008, 09:46:06 PM
The Founding Fathers would probably call in an Ebola virus strike on the whole place if they saw what was going on there.