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MILLER: Transferring a gun into D.C.
By Emily Miller

January 24, 2012, 09:47PM

I bought my new 9mm Sig Sauer from a dealer in Virginia and needed to get it to into the District. When it comes to firearms, a distance of 70 miles might as well be thousands of miles across international borders.

There is no open-carry right in the nation’s capital. It is against the law to posses a firearm in a public space unless traveling directly to or from a lawful, firearm-related activity, such as registering, hunting, shooting with it at a practice range. So a D.C. resident must use the city’s one legal gun dealer, Charles Sykes, to physically transfer the gun into the city.

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Doesn't this make perfect sense???

After sorting through the D.C. gun laws, Mr. Attanasio called me back. “I’m a FFL licensed dealer and I can’t drive it into the city to Sykes, another licensed dealer,” he told me, astounded. “But I can send it to him and pass through who-knows-how-many unlicensed hands.” I'm watching first-hand how gun-control restrictions aren't based on common sense.