Just curious

I was curious about how one registers a firearm in Washington, DC post-Heller. The Metropolitan Police has an online brochure and a website.

How Do I Register a Firearm in the District?
To register a fiream, residents must report to the Firearms Registration Section of the Metropolitan Police Department, located at 300 Indiana Avenue, NW. The application process may take up to 14 days. The cost for registering each firearm is $13, plus $35 to process fingerprints and $12 for test-firing the weapon.
Applicants must:
--Be 21 years of age
--Complete a firearms application
--Bring proof of residency (e.g., D.C. Driver’s License)
--Bring two (2) passport-sized front facing photos
--Be fingerprinted
--Pass a 20-question multiple choice test
--Complete a notarized firearms eligibility statement

And

WHAT TYPES OF FIREARMS CAN I REGISTER?
Shotguns, rifles, and handguns — which includes revolvers and semi-automatic handguns with a maximum capacity of 10 rounds. However, a shotgun barrel cannot be less than 20 inches in length, and a rifle barrel cannot be less than 16 inches in length and must have a total overall length of 26 inches or more.
WHAT TYPES OF THINGS WOULD CAUSE ME TO BE DISQUALIFIED FROM BEING ABLE TO REGISTER A FIREARM?
To qualify for registration of a firearm in the District of Columbia, you must meet all of the following criteria. You:
1. Must not stand convicted of a crime of violence, or have any prior weapons offenses.
2. Must not be under indictment for a crime of violence or weapons offense.
3. Must not stand convicted within the past five years for a narcotics or dangerous drug offense, threats to do bodily harm or for assault.
4. Must not have been acquitted of any criminal charge by reason of insanity or adjudicated as a chronic alcoholic by any court within the past five years.
5. Must not have been voluntarily or involuntarily committed to any mental hospital or institution within the past five years.
6. Must not suffer from a physical defect which would make it unsafe for you to possess and use a firearm safely and responsibly.
7. Must not be found negligent in any firearm mishap causing death or injury to another human being.
8. Must not be convicted of any felony, or prostitution-related offense.

BTW, DC uses the 26 USC 5845 definition of a Machine gun:
Machine guns, defined as any firearm which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
(D.C. Official Code § 7-2501.01(10))

then they cover their asses with this cannot be registered:

(IV) A semiautomatic, rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any one of the following:
(aa) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(bb) A thumbhole stock;
(cc) A folding or telescoping stock;
(dd) A grenade launcher or flare launcher;
(ee) A flash suppressor; or
(ff) A forward pistol grip;

Somehow they missed bayonet lug in this list.

Well,someone agrees with me!

DC does it again!

After pissing off the rest of the country with its outrageous gun laws, DC has legalised gay marriage! (OK, Heller probably put them where they should be as far as guns go, but I am still pissed off at how the whole thing went down)

I have to admit to having no problem with gay marriage since it is more about property and rights than anything else. Ask anybody stuck in a bad marriage or who has gone through multiple divorces as to how "sacred" marriage really is.

This one will be fun to see how the rest of the country deals with DC's new law.

Will the religious right plaintiff shop to find someone who opposes the law? Will they add some rider onto a law that is popular to ban the law?

I am sure glad I don't live in DC anymore since they have absolutely no rights.

Why I don't call myself a US citizen.

I loved living in Washington, DC. It is a city which tries to show an image of what the United States really deep down wants to be. People come there and love the metro, yet go home to their private cars. There are loads of cool museums and loads of restaurants.

And, strict gun laws. These gun laws bother the heck out of people who don't live in Washington, DC. Probably because Washington, DC is the capital of the United States, yet it has strict gun laws. These gun laws have been found constitutional up until a legal aberration happened in Parker v. DC. That legal aberration was that a rogue judge decided he didn't like precedent and wants to make his own law. The same people who get upset when this happens in situations they consider "liberal" applaud this as a correct decision (smell the hypocracy?).

The United States doesn't have leaders. Leaders are people who lead when the followers go astray. They have the guts to say this is a wrong idea.

I cannot support Barack Obama because he cannot say that the Second Amendment only means that we have a citizen's militia (as opposed to a standing army). What the Second Amendment means is that we should not have a trillion dollar military budget because people are willing to give up their personal time for training and militia duties. But, the Second Amendment is meaningless since most people aren't willing to take the responsibilities incumbent with that right. How many of these Second Amendment "supporters" are willing to volunteer for Iraq or Afghanistan? Yes, this means giving up their liberty to defend the United States because their commander in chief commands it.

It's not about saying that you belong to an "unorganised militia" and demanding to bear arms. The unorganised militia is a draft pool for the organised militia. Actually, it was better explained as a construct so that the "universal militia" could be kept up "in spirit" because people weren't willing to give up their time to be an actual militia member. The "unorganised militia" comment is a silly as saying that Ted Nugent was a Viet Nam vet because he had a draft card. Never mind Terrible Ted, who is happy killing things that can't shoot back was a sniveling coward who showed up at his draft board physical, with no personal hygiene. having eaten nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and with a week to go until the physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether. When the big day came, he had been living in excrement-caked and urine-stained pants.

And he boasted about this in a 1990 Detroit Free Press interview.

No, the RKBA crowd want the guns without the responsibilities.

So, Yes, THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS MEANINGLESS! It is an anachronism which prevents the people of the United States from being able to have sane gun laws. It doesn't need to be repealed, it needs to be understood. The real meaning needs to be taught rather than the lies pushed upon us by "public interest groups" which don't serve the REAL public interest.

I am not proud of the United States since it lacks leaders. It seems to lack people with any intelligence. And it definitely seems to lack people who are willing to stand up for their principals when they are being trampled.