BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is congratulating President Donald Trump for streamlining the gun permitting process for honest citizens in the District of Columbia, as part of the administration’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital.
As reported by Fox News, part of Trump’s “Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force” effort has resulted in allowing D.C. residents to book next-day appointments to register their firearms with the Metropolitan Police Department, while walk-in appointments are now available and advertised on the police department’s website.
Previously, applicants had to wait up to four months for a registration appointment.
“No law-abiding citizen should have to wait months before he or she can register their firearms, or obtain a concealed carry permit,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It now appears the permitting process has been reduced to a few days, and that’s really all it should take.
Purposeful foot-dragging by anti-gun-rights bureacucrats is absurd, and it has been known to cost lives.
“We know how historically hostile the District government has been toward the Second Amendment,” he continued, “and we are delighted the president’s task force has apparently turned this around. Any effort to combat violent crime must include making it possible for honest citizens to fight back. This has not been possible under previous administrations, which discouraged people from exercising their fundamental rights. Under the Trump administration, that is changing, and we encourage the District government to get in the game.
“Nowhere in the United States,” Gottlieb observed, “and especially in the nation’s capital—where the heart and soul of government resides—should law-abiding citizens be faced with deliberately-sluggish regulations and snail’s pace schedules which prevent them from exercising all of their rights, including those protected by the Second Amendment.
“The time has come for violent criminals to realize the District of Columbia is no longer their sanctuary,” Gottlieb stated. “CCRKBA has always stood up for the rights of our fellow citizens to keep and bear arms, no matter where they live. We’re gratified to see an administration which shares that perspective.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
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No law-abiding citizen should be registering their firearms!
Don’t like the registration part of the program. In kommiefornia if you get a CCW you have to register the firearm that you have it for and if it goes into the shop, you have to register a different one and you can only carry the one registered to you. In OreGONEistan, you can have any pistol you want without registration. I can appreciate the speeding up of the process to get a permit but I do not approve of the registry. If this could end states that require permit to buy a gun that would be great but it… Read more »
“Trump’s “Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force” effort has resulted in allowing D.C. residents to book next-day appointments to register their firearms with the Metropolitan Police Department”
I’ll bet they want people to register their firearms. And what does registration lead to?
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but it was my understanding that there is a law preventing the federal government from having a gun registration program.
Considering the District of Columbia is basically a subset of the federal government, why is it legal for them to have a gun registration since that would effectively result in the federal government having a gun registration program?
So are we all reading this carefully? Streamlining the process of registering firearms………………… Not in a free society. This smacks of Jim Crow. Streamlining the process of paying your poll tax, taking your literacy test to be able to vote…………. progressives may fancy this ‘improvement’ but in a free society this brand of streamlining has no place. DC badly needs concealed carry of the Constitutional variety. I find it absurd that military folks who are unlucky enough to be stationed in DC are rendered eunuchs by fiat when they cross the line in to the District from Virginia. Crime in… Read more »
Here is the original article on this, in March: https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/trump-signs-executive-order-to-fast-track-concealed-carry-permits-in-d-c-video/ This article makes it sound like it was done today. If it was done in March, what have been the results? I recently asked for Vice President J. D. Vance on the White House dot com site to do something about the Puerto Rico carry problem for those of us in the states who want to carry there. I also asked the same on the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division site. There is no reason why Trump can not sign an Executive Order forcing the territories and dependencies to… Read more »
Wait a cotton picking minute… register their arms???!!! I like speeding up progress for an unconstitutional permit for bearing arms. It’s time for nationwide permit less bearing of arms!!!
The irony of a group calling itself the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms while cheering for the speeding up of infringement.
Nope, I won’t register a weapon anywhere, especially DC. Registering weapons will probably end badly for them in the future.
President Trump is the man!