David Gregory’s ‘Meet the Press’ display of a high-capacity magazine may have violated D.C. gun law
Source: NY Daily News
After Gregory’s “Meet the Press” show-and-tell, some gun rights activists noted that a section in the D.C. code prohibited the show from having the magazine in its Washington studio.
“No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm,” it reportedly says.
And a spokesman for the Washington Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to Politico that Gregory’s demonstration might have broken a local law. On Wednesday, the police also said that NBC News was aware that its prop was not lawful.
“NBC contacted (the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department) inquiring if they could utilize a high capacity magazine for their segment,” police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump told Politico in an email. “NBC was informed that possession of a high capacity magazine is not permissible and their request was denied.”
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For him to show that huge magazine to LaPierre, and LaPierre's inability/unwillingness to admit that these things have no business being among the general public, was stunning, as was his inability/unwillingness to admit that maybe a **smaller** magazine would do just as well, if people positively, absolutely have to have their AK-47s and Bushmasters. It was an exquisite demonstration of how fanatical and intransigent the NRA has become on the subject of weapons and gun control.
And it's rich that gun rights people are getting their pants in wad over this when there are -- tell me again -- how many assault weapons and other guns out on the streets? And how many people have been killed by guns in the week since Sandy Hook? But that's okay, because they're legal.
