· Repeal the District’s ban on semi-automatic handguns. Semi-automatic pistols have been the most commonly purchased firearms in the United States over the last 20 years, and therefore a ban on those firearms is unconstitutional as decided by Heller;

· Restore the right of self-defense by repealing the requirement that firearms be disassembled or secured with a trigger lock in the home;

· Reform the current D.C. registration system that requires multiple visits to police headquarters; ballistics testing; passing a written test on D.C. gun laws; fingerprinting; and limiting registration to one handgun per 90 days. The current system is unduly burdensome and serves as a vehicle for even more onerous restrictions; and

· Create a limited exemption to the federal ban on interstate handgun sales by allowing D.C. residents to purchase handguns in Virginia and Maryland. Currently there is only one licensed firearm dealer in the District, and the District government is standing in the way of additional dealers opening their doors. A 40-year old federal law prohibits residents from purchasing handguns outside of the District.

“I’d like to thank Congressmen Travis Childers, John Dingell, John Tanner, Mike Ross, Mark Souder, Bill Sali and Robin Hayes for their leadership. NRA will continue our work to bring the Second Amendment to D.C. residents, but we call on the Senate now to take up this historic legislation,” concluded Cox. “The American people should know where their elected representatives stand on this critical civil rights legislation before the November elections.”

I HAVE directed the proper officers to lay before you respectively such papers and estimates as regards the affairs particularly recommended to your consideration, and necessary to convey to you that information of the state of the union, which it is my duty to afford.

The welfare of our country is the great object to which our cares and efforts ought to be directed.– And I shall derive great satisfaction from a cooperation with you, in the pleasing though arduous task of ensuring to our fellow citizens the blessings which they have a right to expect, from a free and equal government.

G. WASHINGTON United States, January 8, 1790

They note that the Childers bill would only ban residents from carrying pistols around the city, unless they have a special license. It has no prohibition on toting semiautomatic rifles, and therefore authorities would have no charge to use against anyone doing so, according to a legal analysis by the government reform committee.

The National Rifle Association, a strong supporter of the Childers bill, disputes that interpretation. “Any lawyer who has such creative ability to read that into the law probably went to the University of Disney World,” said Chris W. Cox, the chief NRA lobbyist.

Their own “Correctness” (Please don’t profile that angry looking foreigner between the ages of 20 – 40)has opened the door to the lunatic fringe that could pull off this kind of maneuver right on Pennsylvania Avenue. But I doubt the weapons would come from any local straw purchase. More likely by some Argentinian with close contacts with Hugo Chavez and his new Russian AK’s