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TDL · August 26, 2014, 10:01 PM

44Amp, Frank, thanks.

here is a question, is there case law on allowing a spouse to dry fire or clean a firearm in the home?

For example in DC, a firearm, any firearm, can only be owned and registered by a single individual. Now there are no ranges in DC. And it is clear that a spouse driving to a range in Virginia would be committing a gun crime transporting, containerized, locked, and unloaded a legally owned firearm for the duration of the trip in Virginia.

DC does make exception for third party use in presence of a thread. But would a gun owning spouse supervising a the non gun owning spouse cleaning/field stripping a firearm or dry firing a firearm already be in violation of the law?

Is that a transfer?

What I am getting at is this language already seems present in DC.

Again, I am not 100% incredulous but I would really like to see the case law. For sure the chilling affect is there, but are there truly any clean cases upholding this?

August 26, 2014, 10:01 PM	#19
TDL Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2013 Posts: 317	44Amp, Frank, thanks. here is a question, is there case law on allowing a spouse to dry fire or clean a firearm in the home? For example in DC, a firearm, any firearm, can only be owned and registered by a single individual. Now there are no ranges in DC. And it is clear that a spouse driving to a range in Virginia would be committing a gun crime transporting, containerized, locked, and unloaded a legally owned firearm for the duration of the trip in Virginia. DC does make exception for third party use in presence of a thread. But would a gun owning spouse supervising a the non gun owning spouse cleaning/field stripping a firearm or dry firing a firearm already be in violation of the law? Is that a transfer? What I am getting at is this language already seems present in DC. Again, I am not 100% incredulous but I would really like to see the case law. For sure the chilling affect is there, but are there truly any clean cases upholding this?