Where/how to buy a used gun

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Anonymous wrote:To the question of why do you need more than one or two or three (or a dozen) firearms?

Many are specialized and fit a narrow need. Skeet shooting, sporting clays, quail hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting, rimfire competitions, long range rifle competitions, cowboy action shooting competitions, self defense (need at least a shotgun, rifle and pistol), hand gun bullseye competitions, etc, the list goes one and fortunately I don't have to give a reason for what I own.

I mean, why would anyone need more than a used jelly jar for a drinking utensil? Well, some folks like to have a different glass for water, white wine, red wine, sparkling wine, cognac, coffee, hot tea, iced tea, fruit juice, etc,

I mean, why would anyone need more than a big ole cast iron skillet? It would really do just about anything, right? Why do you need multiple sauce pans, double boilers, different sized skillets, cake pans, bunt pans, etc?

A fisherman could get by with one cane pole with a piece of line, a hook and a float but do you question why they have multiple types of poles, reels, baits?

Gardening tools? One shovel should do.

There are so many things in life that are like that.

No reason to get bent out of shape over numbers when gun owners can really only use one at a time anyway.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to OP question: are any gun shops still open in DC? (and is there any stock left?)

There are no gun shops in DC.

There is one licensed dealer, he has an office at one of the police stations. He does not keep any firearms in stock.

To buy a handgun you have to go through an arduous process of getting a permit from the DC police, ordering the gun then having it transferred to that dealer, then going though another waiting period and approvals from the DC police firearms officer before the dealer can release the handgun to you.

You have to do the same process for a long gun, but with a long gun you can go to Virginia and buy one from a dealer there after you get the permit from the DC police. You would have to buy it, and then return on a later date after the 10 day waiting period. You would then have to take it to the DC police to complete the registration.

All of the processes are exactly the same regardless of whether its a new or used gun, not sure where people got the idea that a used gun is any different legally. Direct person-to-person sales are prohibited in DC as well as interstate. Unless "used gun" is a euphemism for "illegal gun sale".

You are limited to 10 round magazines and of course no "assault weapons" are allowed in DC. Depending on what gun you are thinking about you'll have to make sure it has 10 round or less magazines available.

If you search for "Emily gets her gun", a reporter went through the whole process of trying to buy a gun in DC, you can read the whole saga. It's enough of a process that she wrote a book about it. The city government really doesn't want people to own guns, and most residents seem to agree with them.

[Anonymous]

Op- are you still here? If so I suggest you call Engage Armament in Rockville on Gide drive. They are knowledgeable and will help you through the legal process of purchasing a gun. They sell used.

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Can't we just have MS-13 protect us???

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating to watch people who usually hate guns suddenly want guns because they hate Trump.

You probably missed the bus. I can't imagine anyone with a gun wants to sell it now. Not even sure the local gun shops are open or what they have. You can always try https://www.gunbroker.com/

It's not because I hate Trump -- which I do -- it's because he's in charge during a serious crisis. We need a real leader not an idiot. He was a babbling fool during his press conference. Too bad we don't have a better president during this crisis but -- we don't. We have Trump. We are swirling the drain and yeah, I want a gun.

Ah well then, if you do get one, first thing I would recommend is thug proofing it by taking that front sight off or filing that front site down until it's smooth with the barrel. That way it will be easier for you to remove when the thug takes it away from you and shoves it up your a$$ -- due to the fact that you have NO IDEA on how to deploy a gun in a defensive situation, nor how to conduct malfunction drills if it has a stoppage.

Good luck fools. Perhaps you should step out of your echo chambers once in a while and see that the world is a cold, harsh and unforgiving place. If it gets that bad, you will all be meat for the beast. The real world is GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE.

How do you know any of that? I was raised by a father who grew up on a farm and thought everyone should own a gun, know how to use it and how to take it apart, clean it and put it back together. Your mind is a filthy, filthy place, PP. Disgusting inside there.

I'm trying to educate you here. You better get it into your mindset that if things get as bad as what's being suggested, you will simply not comprehend the raw, brutal, third-world style violence that will occur before your eyes-- in an absolute flash. Daddy will not be there to tell you to "move" and "get off the X" when you lack the situational awareness to mitigate what's about to happen, or the tactics and training to adjust and counter -- to save your own life or the lives of your loved ones. I'm sorry but that's the unbridled truth. In NoVA and DC, you live in a place where the rule of law is razor thin. If it get's that bad, take a look around you, on your streets, your metro stops, the escalators where you step to the right to stay out of the way. You live in the land of wolves, and you're NOT a wolf. My advice: pray the rule of law upholds.

Bwahaha. You need to step out of your bunker and breathe some fresh air. You sound almost psychotic.

DP. This is what I thought until a virus that does essentially NOTHING in the grand scheme of infectious disease slaughtered the global economy and made it almost impossible to get basic staples. There were two weeks straight where I spent hours a day trying to find meat anywhere. And this virus kills almost nobody and is not very contagious (again, compared to other historic pandemics). This was enough to convince me that if things got even a little worse, just wait what will happen. Two weeks of no meat will turn into two months of no food. The dregs of society price gouging and getting into squabbles at Costco will turn into straight up looting and roving gangs. The point is not what might happen on the next few weeks. The point is what might happen the next time some fool eats a wild animal in a market in a third world hole in the ground and we have a REAL disease coming after us. You are foolish to pretend this couldn’t happen, or is even unlikely given what we now know about our clearly worthless governments and fellow man

Where on earth do you live? Costco and the grocery stores are full again.

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating to watch people who usually hate guns suddenly want guns because they hate Trump.

You probably missed the bus. I can't imagine anyone with a gun wants to sell it now. Not even sure the local gun shops are open or what they have. You can always try https://www.gunbroker.com/

It's not because I hate Trump -- which I do -- it's because he's in charge during a serious crisis. We need a real leader not an idiot. He was a babbling fool during his press conference. Too bad we don't have a better president during this crisis but -- we don't. We have Trump. We are swirling the drain and yeah, I want a gun.

Ah well then, if you do get one, first thing I would recommend is thug proofing it by taking that front sight off or filing that front site down until it's smooth with the barrel. That way it will be easier for you to remove when the thug takes it away from you and shoves it up your a$$ -- due to the fact that you have NO IDEA on how to deploy a gun in a defensive situation, nor how to conduct malfunction drills if it has a stoppage.

Good luck fools. Perhaps you should step out of your echo chambers once in a while and see that the world is a cold, harsh and unforgiving place. If it gets that bad, you will all be meat for the beast. The real world is GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE.

How do you know any of that? I was raised by a father who grew up on a farm and thought everyone should own a gun, know how to use it and how to take it apart, clean it and put it back together. Your mind is a filthy, filthy place, PP. Disgusting inside there.

I'm trying to educate you here. You better get it into your mindset that if things get as bad as what's being suggested, you will simply not comprehend the raw, brutal, third-world style violence that will occur before your eyes-- in an absolute flash. Daddy will not be there to tell you to "move" and "get off the X" when you lack the situational awareness to mitigate what's about to happen, or the tactics and training to adjust and counter -- to save your own life or the lives of your loved ones. I'm sorry but that's the unbridled truth. In NoVA and DC, you live in a place where the rule of law is razor thin. If it get's that bad, take a look around you, on your streets, your metro stops, the escalators where you step to the right to stay out of the way. You live in the land of wolves, and you're NOT a wolf. My advice: pray the rule of law upholds.

Bwahaha. You need to step out of your bunker and breathe some fresh air. You sound almost psychotic.

DP. This is what I thought until a virus that does essentially NOTHING in the grand scheme of infectious disease slaughtered the global economy and made it almost impossible to get basic staples. There were two weeks straight where I spent hours a day trying to find meat anywhere. And this virus kills almost nobody and is not very contagious (again, compared to other historic pandemics). This was enough to convince me that if things got even a little worse, just wait what will happen. Two weeks of no meat will turn into two months of no food. The dregs of society price gouging and getting into squabbles at Costco will turn into straight up looting and roving gangs. The point is not what might happen on the next few weeks. The point is what might happen the next time some fool eats a wild animal in a market in a third world hole in the ground and we have a REAL disease coming after us. You are foolish to pretend this couldn’t happen, or is even unlikely given what we now know about our clearly worthless governments and fellow man

Where on earth do you live? Costco and the grocery stores are full again.

I haven't been to the store in the past week, but it's still very difficult to get some basic items from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods. Last week, at Harris Teeter, there were only about 6 half gallons of milk left in the whole store, NO PORK, NO CHICKEN, and a bunch of other stuff missing. But, the two weeks to which I was specifically referring were March 12-March 26. So, I'm not sure if you are contradicting my post or if time flies when you're having fun?

[Anonymous]

This is why we live by the saying “Come and take it”

How many of the “come and take it” crowd are meekly obeying the “stay at home” decrees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating to watch people who usually hate guns suddenly want guns because they hate Trump.

You probably missed the bus. I can't imagine anyone with a gun wants to sell it now. Not even sure the local gun shops are open or what they have. You can always try https://www.gunbroker.com/

It's not because I hate Trump -- which I do -- it's because he's in charge during a serious crisis. We need a real leader not an idiot. He was a babbling fool during his press conference. Too bad we don't have a better president during this crisis but -- we don't. We have Trump. We are swirling the drain and yeah, I want a gun.

Ah well then, if you do get one, first thing I would recommend is thug proofing it by taking that front sight off or filing that front site down until it's smooth with the barrel. That way it will be easier for you to remove when the thug takes it away from you and shoves it up your a$$ -- due to the fact that you have NO IDEA on how to deploy a gun in a defensive situation, nor how to conduct malfunction drills if it has a stoppage.

Good luck fools. Perhaps you should step out of your echo chambers once in a while and see that the world is a cold, harsh and unforgiving place. If it gets that bad, you will all be meat for the beast. The real world is GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE.

How do you know any of that? I was raised by a father who grew up on a farm and thought everyone should own a gun, know how to use it and how to take it apart, clean it and put it back together. Your mind is a filthy, filthy place, PP. Disgusting inside there.

I'm trying to educate you here. You better get it into your mindset that if things get as bad as what's being suggested, you will simply not comprehend the raw, brutal, third-world style violence that will occur before your eyes-- in an absolute flash. Daddy will not be there to tell you to "move" and "get off the X" when you lack the situational awareness to mitigate what's about to happen, or the tactics and training to adjust and counter -- to save your own life or the lives of your loved ones. I'm sorry but that's the unbridled truth. In NoVA and DC, you live in a place where the rule of law is razor thin. If it get's that bad, take a look around you, on your streets, your metro stops, the escalators where you step to the right to stay out of the way. You live in the land of wolves, and you're NOT a wolf. My advice: pray the rule of law upholds.

Bwahaha. You need to step out of your bunker and breathe some fresh air. You sound almost psychotic.

DP. This is what I thought until a virus that does essentially NOTHING in the grand scheme of infectious disease slaughtered the global economy and made it almost impossible to get basic staples. There were two weeks straight where I spent hours a day trying to find meat anywhere. And this virus kills almost nobody and is not very contagious (again, compared to other historic pandemics). This was enough to convince me that if things got even a little worse, just wait what will happen. Two weeks of no meat will turn into two months of no food. The dregs of society price gouging and getting into squabbles at Costco will turn into straight up looting and roving gangs. The point is not what might happen on the next few weeks. The point is what might happen the next time some fool eats a wild animal in a market in a third world hole in the ground and we have a REAL disease coming after us. You are foolish to pretend this couldn’t happen, or is even unlikely given what we now know about our clearly worthless governments and fellow man

Where on earth do you live? Costco and the grocery stores are full again.

+1000. This is far from the DC burbs I know. This has to be a troll. Not a rational adult.

[Anonymous]

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This is why we live by the saying “Come and take it”

How many of the “come and take it” crowd are meekly obeying the “stay at home” decrees?

Staying at home is smart for us to do. When you try and come take our stuff, supplies, guns, or whatever else you see fit we will respond in ways you are noble to imagine.

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I haven't been to the store in the past week, but it's still very difficult to get some basic items from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods. Last week, at Harris Teeter, there were only about 6 half gallons of milk left in the whole store, NO PORK, NO CHICKEN, and a bunch of other stuff missing. But, the two weeks to which I was specifically referring were March 12-March 26. So, I'm not sure if you are contradicting my post or if time flies when you're having fun?

DP.

OMG, I have to eat steak and salmon instead of chicken and pork. Lace up the storm trooper boots, pull on the balaclava, lock and load, and let’s bring this city down!

What a whiner. Also, try Instacart or Safeway, that is if your delicate constitution will tolerate food from somewhere besides Whole Foods. Everybody knows that Whole Foods delivery is impossible, but you’re not even trying if that’s the only place you’re looking. My local Safeway had plenty of chicken on Friday.

I guarantee that 99% of the population has a more mature perspective than you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the question of why do you need more than one or two or three (or a dozen) firearms?

Many are specialized and fit a narrow need. Skeet shooting, sporting clays, quail hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting, rimfire competitions, long range rifle competitions, cowboy action shooting competitions, self defense (need at least a shotgun, rifle and pistol), hand gun bullseye competitions, etc, the list goes one and fortunately I don't have to give a reason for what I own.

I mean, why would anyone need more than a used jelly jar for a drinking utensil? Well, some folks like to have a different glass for water, white wine, red wine, sparkling wine, cognac, coffee, hot tea, iced tea, fruit juice, etc,

I mean, why would anyone need more than a big ole cast iron skillet? It would really do just about anything, right? Why do you need multiple sauce pans, double boilers, different sized skillets, cake pans, bunt pans, etc?

A fisherman could get by with one cane pole with a piece of line, a hook and a float but do you question why they have multiple types of poles, reels, baits?

Gardening tools? One shovel should do.

There are so many things in life that are like that.

No reason to get bent out of shape over numbers when gun owners can really only use one at a time anyway.

So how often do you go quail hunting or participate in cowboy action competitions or any of the rest of that? Yeah, I didn’t think so. And your estimate of a “minimum” of three pieces for self defense seems insane.

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I haven't been to the store in the past week, but it's still very difficult to get some basic items from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods. Last week, at Harris Teeter, there were only about 6 half gallons of milk left in the whole store, NO PORK, NO CHICKEN, and a bunch of other stuff missing. But, the two weeks to which I was specifically referring were March 12-March 26. So, I'm not sure if you are contradicting my post or if time flies when you're having fun?

DP.

OMG, I have to eat steak and salmon instead of chicken and pork. Lace up the storm trooper boots, pull on the balaclava, lock and load, and let’s bring this city down!

What a whiner. Also, try Instacart or Safeway, that is if your delicate constitution will tolerate food from somewhere besides Whole Foods. Everybody knows that Whole Foods delivery is impossible, but you’re not even trying if that’s the only place you’re looking. My local Safeway had plenty of chicken on Friday.

I guarantee that 99% of the population has a more mature perspective than you.

Not sure where that PP lives but Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, and Trader Joes where I am have not had any shortage of basic items (milk, bread, eggs, meat) for the past three weeks.

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I haven't been to the store in the past week, but it's still very difficult to get some basic items from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods. Last week, at Harris Teeter, there were only about 6 half gallons of milk left in the whole store, NO PORK, NO CHICKEN, and a bunch of other stuff missing. But, the two weeks to which I was specifically referring were March 12-March 26. So, I'm not sure if you are contradicting my post or if time flies when you're having fun?

DP.

OMG, I have to eat steak and salmon instead of chicken and pork. Lace up the storm trooper boots, pull on the balaclava, lock and load, and let’s bring this city down!

What a whiner. Also, try Instacart or Safeway, that is if your delicate constitution will tolerate food from somewhere besides Whole Foods. Everybody knows that Whole Foods delivery is impossible, but you’re not even trying if that’s the only place you’re looking. My local Safeway had plenty of chicken on Friday.

I guarantee that 99% of the population has a more mature perspective than you.

Not sure where that PP lives but Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, and Trader Joes where I am have not had any shortage of basic items (milk, bread, eggs, meat) for the past three weeks.

I live in Falls Church and yes there have been major shortages up until this week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the question of why do you need more than one or two or three (or a dozen) firearms?

Many are specialized and fit a narrow need. Skeet shooting, sporting clays, quail hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting, rimfire competitions, long range rifle competitions, cowboy action shooting competitions, self defense (need at least a shotgun, rifle and pistol), hand gun bullseye competitions, etc, the list goes one and fortunately I don't have to give a reason for what I own.

I mean, why would anyone need more than a used jelly jar for a drinking utensil? Well, some folks like to have a different glass for water, white wine, red wine, sparkling wine, cognac, coffee, hot tea, iced tea, fruit juice, etc,

I mean, why would anyone need more than a big ole cast iron skillet? It would really do just about anything, right? Why do you need multiple sauce pans, double boilers, different sized skillets, cake pans, bunt pans, etc?

A fisherman could get by with one cane pole with a piece of line, a hook and a float but do you question why they have multiple types of poles, reels, baits?

Gardening tools? One shovel should do.

There are so many things in life that are like that.

No reason to get bent out of shape over numbers when gun owners can really only use one at a time anyway.

So how often do you go quail hunting or participate in cowboy action competitions or any of the rest of that? Yeah, I didn’t think so. And your estimate of a “minimum” of three pieces for self defense seems insane.

Can't speak for the OP, but I myself go hunting for several species every season.
Do I go to cowboy action comps? No.. but I do attend 5 or 6 different comps a year.

If you think 1 item is all you need for self defense, you're wrong. What happens when that item is upstairs and your home invasion takes place while your folding socks in the basement?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the question of why do you need more than one or two or three (or a dozen) firearms?

Many are specialized and fit a narrow need. Skeet shooting, sporting clays, quail hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting, rimfire competitions, long range rifle competitions, cowboy action shooting competitions, self defense (need at least a shotgun, rifle and pistol), hand gun bullseye competitions, etc, the list goes one and fortunately I don't have to give a reason for what I own.

I mean, why would anyone need more than a used jelly jar for a drinking utensil? Well, some folks like to have a different glass for water, white wine, red wine, sparkling wine, cognac, coffee, hot tea, iced tea, fruit juice, etc,

I mean, why would anyone need more than a big ole cast iron skillet? It would really do just about anything, right? Why do you need multiple sauce pans, double boilers, different sized skillets, cake pans, bunt pans, etc?

A fisherman could get by with one cane pole with a piece of line, a hook and a float but do you question why they have multiple types of poles, reels, baits?

Gardening tools? One shovel should do.

There are so many things in life that are like that.

No reason to get bent out of shape over numbers when gun owners can really only use one at a time anyway.

So how often do you go quail hunting or participate in cowboy action competitions or any of the rest of that? Yeah, I didn’t think so. And your estimate of a “minimum” of three pieces for self defense seems insane.

Can't speak for the OP, but I myself go hunting for several species every season.
Do I go to cowboy action comps? No.. but I do attend 5 or 6 different comps a year.

If you think 1 item is all you need for self defense, you're wrong. What happens when that item is upstairs and your home invasion takes place while your folding socks in the basement?

This is what paranoia looks like.