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Washington DC Residents have started applying to own and keep a firearm for home protection.

Police in the District of Columbia will begin registering residents for handguns Thursday now that the district’s 32-year-old ban has been lifted. Besides obtaining paperwork to buy new handguns, residents also can register firearms they’ve had illegally under a 180-day amnesty period. It comes after the District of Columbia Council approved new firearms legislation Tuesday and as officials grudgingly comply with last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the city’s ban on handguns. Though residents will be allowed to begin applying for handgun permits, city officials have said the entire process could take weeks or months.

Business is steady at the Blue Ridge Arsenal gun shop and range in nearby Chantilly, Va. but Washington DC residents must endure a process designed to be long and tortured. Handguns, as well as other legal firearms such as rifles and shotguns, also must be kept unloaded and disassembled, or equipped with trigger locks ? unless there is a “reasonably perceived threat of immediate harm” in the home. By and large citizens who pass an police background check can own a handgun for personal protection if it has a capacity of less than 12 rounds.

2^nd Amendment advocates and other members of the gun-grabbing - dog nut groups as described by Barack Obama will almost certainly file lawsuits against the Washington DC City Council for what they say is obstructionism. Washington DC earned the infamy of America’s “murder capitol” during the 30-year ban, and was more dangerous than living in Baghdad during the height of the Iraq War.