D.C. Handgun Registration

A short article in this morning's Northwest Herald (Page 7) reports that handgun registration began yesterday in Washington, D.C. This registration is the result of the Heller decision in the U.S. Supreme Court.

When security guard Dick Heller showed up to register his handgun, he was turned away from police headquarters. According to the article, he was turned away because he did not take his handgun with him.

Heller, you may or may not know, was the man whose case resulted in overturning the D.C. prohibition on handguns. Heller is a security guard who is armed on-duty, but who could not keep his duty handgun in his home because of the D.C. law.

Well, of course he would not take his handgun to him. That's like going swimming in the pool right under the sign that says no swimming. If he walked into police headquarters to register his handgun, they would arrest him for having an unregistered handgun!

Gun registration is one step away from gun confiscation. When the cops know what guns you have, then someday they will just knock on your door and demand the guns (by name of manufacturer and serial number).

I'm suspicious of even the requirement of the Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification Card (popularly called the "FOID" card), but I'll agree with it because it "might" slow down the gun possession by criminals and certain others.