California/Maryland/Massachusetts compliant?

Logan7 · 04-05-2020, 04:42 PM

Mrerick - thank you for taking this time to share your expertise and make those key clarifications. I have just set out to review those DC links and the CFR.

This should work. This could happen - if the District will just follow the printed rules and clear intent.

At times they do, and at others they simply do not - by adding costly and complex regulations, with dire penalties for non-compliance. I've never had so many hurdles between me and this basic civil right than here, in the nation's capital.

Let me mention that I have one of the very hard to get carry permits issued in the District. That was another civil right recently forced upon the City Council through the Courts, but they have set up the toughest and most expensive licensing scheme in the nation by way of payback.

Residents here cannot obtain a CCP inside the District! We must all travel 'out of state' and pay $$$ to arrange for two consecutive days of private instruction from someone on their approved list of trainers. The cost of that, plus the actual license fee, plus their $125 FFL transfer fee, plus their fingerprinting fee ..was more than my carry pistol cost me. About 5 bills.

Average folks who live here [am not talking about Congressional staffers, federal bureaucrats, and K-street lobbyists] cannot afford legal and practical, armed self-defense - whatever the Courts say. It's been pushed well up and mostly out of their reach by their own anti-gun City Council. It's a shame.

"For your further entertainment..." Thanks also, Mrerick. 'Twas brillig.

04-05-2020, 04:42 PM	#12
Logan7 User Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 5 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Mrerick - thank you for taking this time to share your expertise and make those key clarifications. I have just set out to review those DC links and the CFR. This should work. This could happen - if the District will just follow the printed rules and clear intent. At times they do, and at others they simply do not - by adding costly and complex regulations, with dire penalties for non-compliance. I've never had so many hurdles between me and this basic civil right than here, in the nation's capital. Let me mention that I have one of the very hard to get carry permits issued in the District. That was another civil right recently forced upon the City Council through the Courts, but they have set up the toughest and most expensive licensing scheme in the nation by way of payback. Residents here cannot obtain a CCP inside the District! We must all travel 'out of state' and pay $$$ to arrange for two consecutive days of private instruction from someone on their approved list of trainers. The cost of that, plus the actual license fee, plus their $125 FFL transfer fee, plus their fingerprinting fee ..was more than my carry pistol cost me. About 5 bills. Average folks who live here [am not talking about Congressional staffers, federal bureaucrats, and K-street lobbyists] cannot afford legal and practical, armed self-defense - whatever the Courts say. It's been pushed well up and mostly out of their reach by their own anti-gun City Council. It's a shame. "For your further entertainment..." Thanks also, Mrerick. 'Twas brillig.