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The fascists next door

News, Political ·Tuesday March 11, 2008 @ 22:23 EDT (link)

20080311: Applied for concealed carry permit at Duvall police department; $55.25 ("exact change only"); simple form plus fingerprinting. Third time there—first time my driver's license still said Redmond so I had to get it updated, second time (yesterday) I found out they only did concealed carry permits on certain days (Tuesdays and Thursdays). It should arrive in 20 days (legally, they have 30 days; I learned that from the pamphlet the female cop gave me).

Since Sunday (~1900), I've been keeping a log of my Broadstripe (ISP) connection uptime, which I mentioned on the Duvall employees at Microsoft internal email alias, receiving a lot of interest including one guy who's going to take the stats to a council meeting Thursday evening. Stats so far: I was suddenly curious about how hard it would be to bring a handgun into Canada, and I found A Practical Guide to Canada's Gun Laws for Americans; damn, you guys are fascists. Here's a summary: Compare and contrast above the requirements for me to get a concealed carry license (which is common to most "shall issue" states; 39/50 states are either "shall issue" or (Alaska and Vermont) "unrestricted"; map of laws by state).