{"id":28569,"date":"2012-02-01T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28569"},"modified":"2012-02-01T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:37:30","slug":"emily-gets-her-gun-testifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28569","title":{"rendered":"“Emily Gets Her Gun” testifies"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t see my original link on the series, Emily Miller of the Washington Times has documented her experience while trying to obtain a legal gun with which to protect herself as a resident of the District of Columbia, which has been forced by the Supreme Court to allow legal handgun ownership. Miller recently testified to the Judicial Committee of the District and recorded her testimony in her column<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the astronomical cost of registering a gun in DC. On top of Sykes\u2019s fees, I paid $225 for the class. $35 for range fees and ammunition. The passport photos cost $20. Then I paid the city $35 for fingerprints, $13 for gun registration and $12 for a ballistics test.<\/p>\n

So I have spent a total of $465 in fees. And that doesn\u2019t include the cost of the gun! <\/p>\n

I had no idea registering a gun would be this expensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s especially expensive when you consider that the only state fees you incur in West Virginia is the sales tax on the gun. I think the gun safety class I took for my CCW license was $75 and the license itself was $100 because I opted for the laminated one with my picture on it which was an extra $25. <\/p>\n

But, back to DC. There are thousands of unregistered and uninsured automobiles in the District because they’ve made it so expensive to maintain a vehicle there. The practice has apparently seeped into the gun owning process, too. There are so many illegal guns in the District precisely because the government wants to limit LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP – a self fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n

Thanks to ROS for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t see my original link on the series, Emily Miller of the Washington Times … “Emily Gets Her Gun” testifies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}