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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/...dc-handgun-ban
Last September, a Washington Post reporter, Christian Davenport, found out just how difficult it still is to get a handgun in D.C. even after the Supreme Court struck down the city's handgun ban. Excluding the price of the gun, the reporter spent $558.69 in various fees to get through the approval process. But that was only part of the cost. It took him "a total of 15 hours 50 minutes, four trips to the Metropolitan Police Department, two background checks, a set of fingerprints, a five-hour class and a 20-question multiple-choice exam."
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Wow, they've made sure that no one will be buying a revolver who doesn't really, really want one. If the civil liberties protected by the first amendment were this well regulated, you would need a background check to buy a book; a laptop with an Internet connection would be as hard to get as a belt-fed heavy machine gun.