U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said people who bring guns into the district will face jail time, even if they’re licensed in another state. Is that backed by law?
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro speaks about murders in Washington in 2024 and 2025, Aug. 12, 2025, during a news conference at the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington . Washington , D.
C., requires people to register their firearms in the district. If people meet certain requirements, registration allows them to legally possess firearms in the district, but not carry them outside their homes or places of business. Eligible residents and nonresidents can carry concealed weapons outside their homes and places of business if they get a Washington, D.C., concealed carry license. Nonresidents can transport their firearms through the district, with some caveats.U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro caused a stir among Second Amendment supporters when she talked about a gun crackdown during a Fox News appearance."You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you're a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back."Feb. 2 that he has a license to carry a firearm in Florida and Washington, D.C., and brings"a gun into the district every week." The National Association for Gun RightsFeb. 3, describing herself as a"proud supporter of the Second Amendment." Washington, D.C., law requires handguns carried into the city be licensed with district police, she "We are focused on individuals who are unlawfully carrying guns and will continue building on that momentum to keep our communities safe," Pirro Pirro’s Feb. 2 comments oversimplified the district’s gun laws. People can legally possess firearms by registering their weapons in the district, and obtaining a Washington, D.C., concealed carry permit would allow them to legally carry it outside their homes and places of business. The district does not recognize other states’ firearm registrations, but people can lawfully transport firearms through the district if they follow certain rules.is required to legally possess a gun in the district, which allows most people to register rifles, shotguns, revolvers and handguns.Completing the department’s free firearms training and safety class;have to be registered. Some people, including qualified current and retired law enforcement officers and on-duty active military members, are Firearm registration allows a person"to possess, but not carry, the gun," said Andrew Willinger, a Georgia State University law professor and gun regulation expert.can carry their firearms in their homes or places of business. They also can use their firearms for lawful recreational purposes — such as at firearms training, safety classes or at a gun range — and transport them withinYes, nonresidents can obtain concealed carry licenses — and they need licenses to legally carry their firearms.have a D.C. permit, that is unlawful regardless of whether the gunowner is licensed in his or her state of residence or law-abiding," Willinger said in an email., it is generally legal for people to transport guns from one state where they can be lawfully possessed to another state where they can be lawfully possessed. People do not have to comply with gun laws in each state they pass through, as long as the firearm is not loaded or readily accessible, Willinger said.as long as they are unloaded and as long as the firearms and ammunition are not readily accessible. If transporting firearms in ways other than in vehicles, they must be unloaded and stored in locked containers.a lawful recreational firearm-related activity don’t need to register their firearm, so long as they can present proof that they legally possess their firearm in their home state and that they are on the way to or from that activity.Email interview with Vanessa Batters-Thompson, DC Appleseed Center For Law and Justice executive director, Feb. 3, 2026 The District of Columbia's"Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975": The Toughest Handgun Control Law in the United States — Or Is It? “No están recibiendo el entrenamiento tradicional de cinco meses… .El entrenamiento para los agentes de ICE ahora es de 47 días”. There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.” The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “backlog of unanswered disaster assistance applications has exploded to the largest in its history.” "Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."“You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.” Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”
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