D.C. Police asking to search private households

Wasn’t sure if there was anything to debate here. Or maybe this belongs in the pit.

From the link -

and…

:rolleyes:

Uh huh. Anybody got a bridge for sale?

Finally! A way to come clean about all those bodies in the basement!

[knock, knock]
Frightened Woman: “Who’s there?”
Muffled Voice: “D.C. Police. Looking for guns. Got any?”
Frightened Woman: “How do I know you’re the D.C. Police? You could be a land shark!”
Muffled Voice:“No, not a land shark, ma’am. Just the DC Police, looking for guns.”
Frightened Woman: “I don’t have any guns.”
Muffled Voice: “Can we come in and look? You might not know you have guns.”
Frightened Woman: “I’d think I’d know if I had guns.”
Muffled Voice: “Sometimes they can sneak in when you don’t see 'em. C’mon, ma’am, let us come in and look for guns.”
Frightened Woman: “Well, okay. But you better really be the D.C. Police!” [cracks door open. music up. Land shark chomps on woman.]

Interesting timing what with the constitutionality of DC gun ban currently being tested in the Supreme Court.

Insert “Jew” for “gun” and see what you think of it… :dubious:

UncleBeer summed it up nicely. My reading of that situation is that it doesn’t look good for the longevity of the ban.

Amnesty huh? How about I leave this pile of parking and speeding tickets in the middle of my kitchen table?

Go shoot the metermaid that wrote the tickets first.

I’m no gun nut, but I think this is just flabbergastingly silly. And I’ve lived in the DC area for years, so I know flabbergastingly silly when I see it.

It’s not only silly, it’s dangerous from a law enforcement perspective. Amnesty is a pretty hefty offering, and if I were a defense lawyer, I’d tell all of my clients to pile all the evidence against them on the dining room table and submit to the search.

So if they search your house and don’t find the gun you’ve cleverly hidden, do you still have amnesty?