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    Disinformation Governor
    Oct 17, 2020
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    What happens to CCW after DC becomes a state within the first 100 days of the next administration?
     

    swamplynx

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    Jul 28, 2014
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    What happens to CCW after DC becomes a state within the first 100 days of the next administration?

    Unconstitutional. Not gonna happen. If it did, presumably the DC Circuit would still exist and the precedents established (shall issue) would still hold.

    What would be more interesting is if they tried to retrocession to MD. Gain (fake) long gun open carry, loose shall issue CCW?
     

    rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    The consensus among centrist constitutional experts is that it can't become a state without an amendment. But it would not be the first time the Dems ignore the Constitution, especially when it comes to entrenching themselves in power. They can simply do it when they pack the Supreme Court with partisans.

    It is packing the court that will most affect CCW as well.

    There are few things more ironic than DC claim of taxation without representation. On average DC residents are massively politically empowered and enfranchised relative to the rest of the country's citizens. and not just the legion of people working at think thanks, on the Hill, in "adovacy journalism" and lobbying etc. The average DC barber is cutting some Hill Legislative Director's hair and can get a pal a green card faster than a barber anywhere else in the US.
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    You're confusing the symbolic " DC " with the actual residents .

    Yes , there are a few enclaves of $ million plus cribs , but most of the big wigs have official residence elsewhere . Either back home wherever , or in Potomac , McLean , Va Horse Country, etc within the DC region . 80% of actual residents range from college students and interns ( who might have family $ behind them , but squat of actual income in their own names , to working stiffs , to hood rats .
     

    rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    You're confusing the symbolic " DC " with the actual residents .

    Yes , there are a few enclaves of $ million plus cribs , but most of the big wigs have official residence elsewhere . Either back home wherever , or in Potomac , McLean , Va Horse Country, etc within the DC region . 80% of actual residents range from college students and interns ( who might have family $ behind them , but squat of actual income in their own names , to working stiffs , to hood rats .
    I have lived here near 30 years.

    Those interns at some think tank, por working low level job at the AFT have way more juice than some small business owner with 14 employees in Bangor, Baton rouge or Boise. An Assistant Leglistaltive Director of some congressional office, or a bureaucrat at Department of Commerce is more, not less, likely to be getting their views on small business from their DC cry cleaners, or their view on immigration from the Guatemalan lady from Mt Pleasant who cleans their apartment building, than from their constituents at home.
     

    Ed Anger

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    Jan 16, 2021
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    Gaithersburg, MD
    Some of us think "DC claim of taxation without representation" is entirely accurate. They tax the crud out of us and don't represent us at all. Truth in advertising.
     

    TheBert

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    Aug 10, 2013
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    Gaithersburg, Maryland
    What happens to CCW after DC becomes a state within the first 100 days of the next administration?

    The interesting thing is that DC has an interesting status, it is the seat of the Federal government and is identified in the US Constitution. Precedent has been set that the part of the seat of government that was surplus to needs was returned to the state, Virginia, that contributed it. If the federal government determines that portions of Maryland's contributions are no longer needed they should be returned to Maryland. This resolves the issue of DC statehood. Besides feeding off of the federal government operations DC contributes nothing to the USA that would warrant it becoming a state.
     
    Nov 10, 2020
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    "Taxation without representation" oh no! Who forced these poor folks to live in the territory that's home to the Federal Capitol, and not a few miles away in either Virginia or Maryland.
     

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