# Is "The right to Choose" real without reasonable access?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722 "2017-05-02T15:45:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722/101 "2017-05-03T18:43:30Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> Its not just jumping through a couple of hoops. Its about as simple to apply for citizenship as it is to apply for a gun license/registration.

It costs about $700 and probably the better part of a year (sometimes more, apparently) to get citizenship. How long does it take to register a gun in DC? To my understanding, roughly about two weeks.

What makes you think it takes a year to get a handgun in DC? And please don’t point me to that moron Emily Miller’s blog posts from ten years ago or whatever. First, she’s a moron who is obviously incompetent at everything that adults can do, and second, it is totally out of date.

> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> DC has yet to permit an FFL to get licensed to sell guns within its borders.

There’s hardly any market here for gun sales. Taxpayers are subsidizing the FFL who handles the transfers, for crying out loud. Are you upset that DC residents aren’t buying more guns to be able to sustain a gun store?

I’m perfectly happy to have a gun store in DC if taxpayers don’t have to subsidize another business. But as it stands, I don’t think that any business owner has the desire to open up an obviously money-losing business in this location.

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**Author:** ![Doubticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Doubticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubticus)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-right-to-choose-real-without-reasonable-access/785722/102 "2017-05-04T20:13:23Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Either “no clinics” is prima facia evidence or it is not.

If there were no clinics because there wasn’t demand that would be one thing. But if there were some that then were closed down because of legislation, that would be evidence of State interference.

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