The highly restrictive firearms laws in Washington, D.C., are enforced differently depending on your status and political position on gun control.
Once again, the D.C. police are using their resources to provide illegal guns for a public relations stunt intended to pressure politicians to pass federal restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Outside the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, blacksmiths will “forge firearms into garden tools” as a symbolic enactment of this year’s theme, “Swords into Plowshares.”
The Children's Defense Fund, which is cosponsoring the event, said in a press release that blacksmiths will be using “illegal guns confiscated by the police.”
The dramatic scene will follows a children’s church service in which the organization’s president Marian Wright Edelman will speak.
It is illegal in the District to possess a firearm that is not registered. When asked about the event, Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s spokesman said that, “These are not firearms. They are scrap parts only, and they are inoperable.”
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Like the gun laws are working in DC. How are they going to change things
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LOL! I love how cops can justify any situation into whatever fits their current effort. Let you or me get pulled over in D.C and be found with one of those "scrap" guns. I get jailed, my car gets confiscated, I pay a huge fine, and some lawyer gets big bucks. But if its a cop and some politicians, its party. Think the laws are made for everyone? Think again...
ReplyDeleteSo when the police show up to deliver these parts of firearms, they should set a good example and leave their firearms home.
ReplyDeleteHopefully they'll use some aluminum frame .25 and it will burn up in the forge
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