D.C. police will start the gun registration process at 7 a.m. tomorrow...An officer from the gun unit will meet the applicant at the door and take temporary possession of the gun to ensure safety at headquarters.But of course. It's only safe if they have it.
And, again of course, if you have a semiautomatic, you're screwed. After all (he asked tongue-in-cheek), wasn't there a "common use" escape hatch in the majority opinion?
The idea of forcing citizens to take a test to exercise a right smacks of a Jim Crow-era story I once heard about blacks trying to register to vote. The sheriff had a jar full of beans, and the test for eligibility was to guess how many were in the jar.