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Washington Times Columnist starts series
about trying to get a gun in D.C.

(GunReports.com) -- "Emily gets her gun" is a new series following Washington Times senior editor Emily Miller as she legally tries to get her hands on a gun in the nation's capital.

You can follow her live tweets from inside the city bureaucracy at @EmilyMiller.

In the kick-off article in the series, she wrote, "I want a gun. I don't feel safe living in Washington, D.C. and want to protect myself. I'm starting today by going down to City Hall to find the gun permit office to tell them, 'I want a gun.' This series will follow me as I navigate the city bureaucracy and outdated rules in order to legally buy a firearm."

She wants a gun because of a brush with criminals one night. She writes, "The next day, I took to Twitter to ask about how to get a gun. The replies were disappointing: 'No 2nd amend in D.C.' 'Only one guy can sell weapons in DC- good luck with that.' 'Call the NRA.' I knew that the Supreme Court had recently overturned the Washington's gun ban, so I didn't understand why gun owners were so down on my idea."

Recently, current city council chairman Kwame Brown came to The Washington Times for a roundtable interview. After he'd been asked about the budget, lottery, ethics and education, I raised my hand. "Can I ask you about guns in DC?"

"You say guns?" the chairman asked.

"Guns," I replied as I held up both of my hands in the shape of a handgun, like they do in "Charlie's Angels."

"Oh you used both your fingers," Mr. Brown said, laughing. "You're a shooter, you use both of them."

I didn't laugh with him. "Well, I'm trying to get a gun," I said.

"You're trying to get a gun?" he repeated.

This is not going to be easy, she wrote.

Read the first article here.

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Reader Comments

OK. Well, I'm bookmarking the article, because I think this might be interesting. It could just prove to be quite embarrassing to the D.C. legal community. But then, its not a state, so maybe they think they are exempt from the Constitution?

Speaking of which - have any of you read HR 822? If it passes will D.C. have to recognize my carry permit there as well? I think it might depend on wording - e.g. "all the states" vs. something like "within the boundaries of the United States of America", or "all the states plus the District of Columbia".

Comment by: david b | October 13, 2011

You can count on it that DC will throw every conceivable obstacle in the way of Emily Miller in her quest to obtain her gun. The same is true if HR 822 actually passes and is signed into law. This will all be quite interesting.....

Comment by: canovack | October 13, 2011

This should be interesting...

Comment by: PVB | October 14, 2011