Shooting DC rats with pellet gun

[BillHoo]

Originally Posted by stars99

DC is so 2nd amendment-phobic, there's probably a prison sentence for having the unlicensed BB

I think a kid got arrested last year because he had a bb gun in the hatchback of his car and someone saw it through the window and reported him.

[bbairman]

Originally Posted by cpal

After calling 311, being given the number of the DC Police Public Affairs, then being given the number of DC Firearms group, the information is in the DC Municipal Regulations. Title 24, Public Space and Safety; Chapter 23, Guns and Other Weapons; states as follows: "2300 Discharge of Weapons "2300.1 No gun, air gun, rifle, air rifle, pistol, revolver, or other firearm, cannon, or torpedo shall be discharged or set off in the District without a special written permit from the Chief of Police." There are exceptions; none of them relevant to this discussion. The section does not apply to licensed shooting galleries open during certain hours. Of course, there are no licensed shooting galleries in DC. Further, in Section 2301 Possession of Weapons, it states: "2301.3 It shall not be lawful for any person to carry or have in his or her possession outside any building in the District an air rifle, air gun, air pistol, B-B gun, spring gun, blowgun, bowgun, or any similar type gun." So the answer is that it is apparently legal for rats to own and use B-B guns.

Odd thing is that the DCMR you quote above appears to made on the basis of the law the previous poster cited ... so its not clear to me that the reg. would be valid to the extent that it applies to BB guns (which as the previous poster pointed out are not firearms or destructive devices under the law...) In any case I wonder if anyone can point me to the penalty for a breach of the sections quoted above.