Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by ghufran_syed on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:53PM (#28556594)

How many of those weapons were discharged? And how many were “seized” is not as interesting as how many were being held illegally? The government can illegally seize all sorts of things from citizens, including cash, but the process of doing so doesn’t make the original possession a crime

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by kube-system on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:58PM (#28556679)

I was answering the question about whether any were armed or not, of which, the answer is yes: some absolutely were.

Getting a permit to carry in DC is extremely difficult to the point where there's no chance any of the protestors had one. That makes possession illegal. Also, a lack of proper licensing is mentioned several times in the article.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by ghufran_syed on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:16PM (#28568056)

Hmm, that’s a good point - I’d forgotten that I used to have to leave my firearms in safe territory back in Arlington VA before visiting DC proper

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