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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: ericire12 on June 30, 2008, 02:22:56 PM

Title: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: ericire12 on June 30, 2008, 02:22:56 PM: http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2008/06/guns_in_dc.shtml

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Guns in DC

So, how does one lawfully get guns into DC? Even after Heller takes effect, it's a tough issue due to zoning:

Washington has no federally licensed gun stores, so nowhere in the city can residents buy a handgun legally.

Not true, really. There is one licensed firearms dealer in the city. One Josh Sugarmann of the anti-gun shill group the Violence Policy Center.

They can be reached at:

Violence Policy Center
1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Suite 1014
Washington, DC 20036

phone (202) 822 8200

Ask them what they're charging for transfers. If they say they don't do them, remind them that, thanks in part to their kind's lobbying efforts, it is typically viewed a violation of federal law to hold an FFL and not be in the business of dealing firearms.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: Hazcat on June 30, 2008, 03:04:59 PM: I mentioned this on another thread the other day when someone said the same thing on here. "No FFLs in DC". I told them to look up the HQ of VPC and ask if they would accept transfers. ;D
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: DDMac on June 30, 2008, 06:48:55 PM: Call Mr. Sugarmann. Ask to purchase a firearm and have it shipped to your local FFL. If he declines, call ATF Industry Operations office in your district and report an FFL refusing to engage in lawful commerce. Then write NRA-ILA and report the complaint for follow up monitoring. If he agrees, maybe you can get a good deal, as he probably isn't getting many customers yet.

Don't know why HE has an FFL, but he must do business, like all the other FFLs, or surrender it.
Mac.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: TAB on June 30, 2008, 06:51:37 PM: Quote from: DDMack on June 30, 2008, 06:48:55 PM

Don't know why HE has an FFL, but he must do business, like all the other FFLs, or surrender it.
Mac.
I'd be willing to bet he does just enough to keep his FFL and no more.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: alfsauve on June 30, 2008, 10:09:04 PM: Maybe he has an FFL so he can help Sarah Brady buy guns.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 01, 2008, 01:18:30 AM: Or so HE can carry a gun in the crime infested sewer his kind turned DC into.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: tt11758 on July 02, 2008, 03:10:01 PM: Quote from: tombogan03884 on July 01, 2008, 01:18:30 AM
Or so HE can carry a gun in the crime infested sewer his kind turned DC into.

I suspect you've hit the nail on the head, Tom.
Title: Re: The lone FFL in DC
Post by: DDMac on July 02, 2008, 03:28:33 PM: Getting an FFL as a personal convenience requires a false statement to a material fact (That you are going to effect transferrs of firearms as a service to the public) on the application, if anybody in a posiition to care, did. Like a false statement on your tax return or passport application. Or an ATF Form 4473.
Mac.