DC Police Break the Law to Promote Anti-Gun Politics

[wctriumph]

The Constitutional hipocracy and breaking of the law continues by those that think they are our masters. They must be made to listen to us as we are their masters.

Washintgton, D.C., police have no problem breaking the law when it comes to liberal causes.
The same agency that denied a permit to the group 2 Million Bikers to D.C. to commemorate the 9/11 attacks while granting one to a Muslim fringe group for a demonstration on Sept. 11 is supplying illegal guns for an anti-gun event Sunday, according to the Washington Times.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., uses weapons supplied by the D.C. police as props during a news conference in January.

Times columnist Emily Miller, an outspoken champion of the Second Amendment, reports that the District police under Chief Cathy Lanier is violating D.C.’s strict gun control ordinances for a photo op outside the National Cathedral dubbed “Swords into Plowshares.”
Co-sponsored by the Children’s Defense Fund — a far-left group even by liberal standards — the event will feature blacksmiths turning “police-confiscated guns into garden tools in a modern-day interpretation of the biblical passage about beating swords into plowshares,” according to a new release.
Very misty-eyed. Very Book of Isaiah and everything. Also very illegal.
As Miller reports, possession of unregistered guns in the District is illegal. Aspokesman for Lanier’s office didn’t change that when he told Miller, “These are not firearms. They are scrap parts only, and they are inoperable.”
The law that should apply to all, local Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Kris Baumann told Miller.
“We are supposed to be the police and, as such, the laws must be applied to everyone without bias,” he said. “The minute we become politicized in how we enforce the law, we become compromised and we lose public trust. This is not rocket science, and yet there appears to be no learning curve on this issue.”
That’s putting it politely. As Miller documents, Lanier has selectively enforced the law by ignoring NBC’s David Gregory’s use of an illegal 30-round magazine as a prop during an interview with the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre and actually helped anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., arrange a display of confiscated “assault weapons” as a publicity stunt for gun control legislation.
In a news release about the event, the NRA demanded the D.C. police put an end to the hypocrisy.
“If [the Metropolitan Police Department] is to carve out exceptions to D.C.’s draconian gun control laws to avoid absurd and unjust consequences, hopefully it will do so on an equal opportunity basis,” the release states. “Better yet, hopefully the D.C. Council, or the U.S. Congress, will finally embrace the Second Amendment and reform D.C.’s unreasonable firearm laws.
Democrats on the D.C. Council aren’t going to embrace the Second Amendment. But they could at least embrace the law.


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[trlcavscout]

Maybe nasty ol lesbian crustaceans are exempt from the law? Why can't she just die already?

[wctriumph]

Here is another article on the event.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...=all#pagebreak

The highly restrictive firearms laws in Washington, D.C., are enforced differently depending on your status and political position on gun control.
Once again, the D.C. police are using their resources to provide illegal guns for a public relations stunt intended to pressure politicians to pass federal restrictions on the Second Amendment.

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SEE ALSO: MILLER: Washington National Cathedral used to attack NRA, destroy illegal guns

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Outside the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, blacksmiths will “forge firearms into garden tools” as a symbolic enactment of this year’s theme, “Swords into Plowshares.”
The Children's Defense Fund, which is cosponsoring the event, said in a press release that blacksmiths will be using “illegal guns confiscated by the police.”
The dramatic scene will follows a children’s church service in which the organization’s president Marian Wright Edelman will speak.
It is illegal in the District to possess a firearm that is not registered. When asked about the event, Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s spokesman said that, “These are not firearms. They are scrap parts only, and they are inoperable.”
That’s actually legally irrelevant. According to the District firearms laws written after the Supreme Court’s Heller decision in 2008, even a non-functioning firearm must be registered and can result in criminal liability.
The chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police for D.C., Kris Baumann, disagrees with the department participating in this event.

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SEE ALSO: MILLER: Smoking gun exposed- D.C. police chief covers up giving Feinstein illegal ‘assault weapons’

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“We are supposed to be the police and, as such, the laws must be applied to everyone without bias,” the head of the 3,600 member union told me Friday. “The minute we become politicized in how we enforce the law, we become compromised and we lose public trust. This is not rocket science, and yet there appears to be no learning curve on this issue.”
He’s referring to two cases of Chief Lanier using her power to help gun-control advocates. David Gregory of NBC News possessed an illegal 30-round magazine in an interview in December 2012 with National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, but the anchor was never arrested or charged.
Also, Chief Lanier provided confiscated guns for a press conference in January at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s request. As I reported in a column last week,Mrs. Feinstein used the weapons set by D.C. police on a pegboard as a backdrop to push for a new federal “assault weapon” ban for rifles with one feature like a pistol grip.
Using a Freedom of Information Act request, I uncovered emails between the chief, the senator’s staff and the sergeant at arms office in which they coordinated how to transfer the weapons, without technically breaking laws for which civilians have been jailed.
The dean of the Cathedral, the Rev. Gary Hall, spoke at Mrs. Feinstein’s media event. Wearing a clerical collar and standing in front of the illegal guns, he said that, “I can no longer justify a society that allows people other than military and police to own weapons like these.”
The NRA sent an email to its members about the event at the cathedral: “We believe that overbroad laws unequally enforced to advance a political agenda constitute an abuse of authority. If MPD is to carve out exceptions to D.C.’s draconian gun-control laws to avoid absurd and unjust consequences, hopefully it will do so on an equal opportunity basis.”
The organization added, “Better yet, hopefully the D.C. Council, or the U.S. Congress, will finally embrace the Second Amendment and reform D.C.’s unreasonable firearm laws.”
No gun control law has ever reduced crime. Since they don’t have facts on their side, advocates like the Rev. Hall, Mr. Gregory and Mrs. Feinstein resort to publicity stunts to attempt to persuade the public based on emotions.
Chief Lanier should spend more time focusing on the increasing violent crime in the nation’s capital and less on getting props for her political friends.


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[Gman]

I guess the left believes that we should disarm ourselves and should just cooperate with whatever they want for us.

[cstone]

Wait...you mean to say that agencies of the government in DC have been politicized? Say it ain't so.

[sako55]

I am getting real sick of this shit. Look at the soon to be mayor of NYC saying he will allow for muslim holidays. yes I did not cap the name on purpose. WTF is happening to this country of ours. I am not even that old and no longer recognize it.

[BushMasterBoy]

I am just waiting for our first transexual president.

[cstone]

I am just waiting for our first transexual president.

Already happened - Mildred Fillmore, 13th President

[buffalobo]

Imagine that, DC govt is crooked.

cstone

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
I am just waiting for our first transexual president.



Already happened - Mildred Fillmore, 13th President