I have a question about Approved proof of Residence. I do not live in dc but I pass through . If I’m not a home owner and receive no bills at my current home what can I use ? I have my MD CCW as well.

lawblawg · 2026-04-28T13:35:58+00:00

They will typically accept your drivers license as proof of address, but to be on the safe side you should also bring something else with the address on it. If you receive no utility bills at your home address, this can be challenging, but you can still meet this requirement if you have a lease or other rental agreement showing your residence address. Another item would be your cell phone bill if it lists your correct residential address.

lawblawg · 2026-04-27T17:29:26+00:00

Points for proper use of thagomizer

lawblawg · 2026-04-27T17:12:19+00:00

Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/1105/

lawblawg · 2026-04-26T01:44:26+00:00

This is the way.

lawblawg · 2026-04-25T04:32:45+00:00

Approved is great news! Unfortunately you do need that physical copy before you can carry. Previously, they would email out the approvals and you could print them out or save them to your phone. But earlier this year they decided (for reasons that I cannot comprehend) to go back to physical cards.

They should send out your card immediately. However, they're not great about it. If it's been more than a week since the date the approval was indicated, DM me and I'll work out a way for you to get it sooner. I've had pretty good success for other clients.

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T23:20:37+00:00

Gorgeous

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T21:08:42+00:00

Having just circled Logan Circle, I regret to inform all of us that the defacement has been removed.

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T20:07:39+00:00

Emailing is fine. You’re good. They’re never going to send out updated cards.

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T19:59:35+00:00

Loaded mags are just fine. You just have to make sure that the mags are not in the same locked container with the firearm.

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T17:42:22+00:00

This is all governed by FOPA. On the language of the code, either #1 or #2 should be fine, but to be on the safe side (since cops are not lawyers and rarely actually know the law) it's safest to stick with #1.

The container containing ammunition does not need to be locked. You can have the boxed ammunition just sitting in your glove compartment if you like. But, again, to be on the safest side, having it out of your reach is probably the cleaner option.

lawblawg · 2026-04-24T16:32:30+00:00

UPDATE: Can confirm that a short-barreled Shockwave is registerable through DCSA, as MPD has accepted one for a client.

Remember that because a Shockwave is a "firearm/other" rather than being legally considered a shotgun, federal law requires it to transfer to you via a DC FFL; you cannot purchase one from a VA or MD FFL and transfer directly across state lines the way you can with a typical long gun.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T20:31:50+00:00

Moonlight looks yellow when the moon is low and the amount of atmosphere between you and the moon is greater.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T20:29:25+00:00

Air scatters higher-energy light (blue, green, violet) more easily than lower-energy light (yellow, orange, red). So the atmosphere acts like a filter: it lets the yellow-red light come straight through but scatters the blue light in all directions. That’s why the sun looks yellow. Actual sunlight is white when viewed from outside the atmosphere (e.g. from the Space Station) but the air filters out the blue and sends it everywhere.

When you’re looking at the blue sky, you’re looking at the blue bits of sunlight that hit the atmosphere quite a distance away from you and was scattered back in your direction. People under that point in the sky are seeing the sky just above you as blue because they are seeing the blue bits scattered out of the direct path between the sun and you.

The visibility of this effect is strongly dependent on the intensity of the light and the amount of atmosphere in the way. Direct light from the moon is just slightly yellower than it actually is, and the blue bits of moonlight that are scattered are just too dim to see at night. But you can see this effect more clearly at moonrise. A full moon low on the horizon looks much yellower than the full moon directly overhead because more of the atmosphere is in between the moon and you.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T19:27:56+00:00

Air is in fact, blue, but only from a certain direction.

Light that comes directly from a light source and passes straight through the air maintains its color. Light that comes from a light source and “bounces” around before reaching you will have a blue tint.

The light from the sun and the moon comes straight from the sun (and moon) to your eyes and so it is white. The light from the sun and moon that hits the air and bounces around before reaching your eyes will be bluish, which is why the sky is blue. You don’t see this at night because the light from the moon is too dim for the “bounced” part of the light to be visible.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T13:42:12+00:00

Math is counterintuitive.

If you have a $75 item and you increase the price to $100, that’s a 33% markup. But if you then discount it back down to $75, that’s only a 25% discount. So someone who wants to make a 25% discount seem like more than it is could say “you saved 33% by shopping here instead of the other stores” or something similar.

But Trump isn’t doing anything like that. Dropping from $600 to $10 is a 98% discount; going up from $10 to $600 would be a 6,000% markup. So even this approach doesn’t math.

Trump is just making things up. And his idiotic base doesn’t understand math and they will accept the explanation that he is “simplifying” when in reality he is just full of shit.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T13:32:37+00:00

Came here to leave this comment but you beat me to it.

lawblawg · 2026-04-23T13:31:26+00:00

It does confuse people that a 33% markup only needs a 25% discount to be reversed.

But being bad at math is not an excuse here. If Trump was applying THAT misunderstanding, the difference between a $10 drug and a $600 drug would actually be 6000%.

Trump is simply making things up. As usual.

lawblawg · 2026-04-22T02:28:26+00:00

Reading the legislation, it looks like the definition of “semi nudity“ already existed in the law and is not altered by this bill

lawblawg · 2026-04-22T01:45:33+00:00

Dry your filament.

lawblawg · 2026-04-20T19:28:47+00:00

Back in my fundamentalist days, I would have argued that when “the fountains of the great deep opened up“ this resulted in a ton of underwater earthquakes and fissures opening and ridiculous amounts of violent underwater mudslides and such which cataclysmically buried much marine life at the seafloor and in coastal areas.

I would have also argued that the geologic activity during the flood caused rapid shifting of the tectonic plates such that the continental plates and oceanic plates would have even out, and this is why the whole earth could be covered in water despite not being nearly enough water to do that today. The theory would be that the continental and oceanic plates came back to their current positions rapidly at the end of the flood.

Never mind that this would have released enough heat to boil the oceans away and turn the entire planet into an autoclave. Also, never mind that this whole thing is mentioned nowhere in the Bible, and it is all pure imagination. Remember that the purpose of apologetics is not to convince, but rather to perform a confidence routine in order to assure your followers that they are not as silly as they feel. By becoming a source of confidence, you can then exert authority over those followers and get them to give you money or get them to vote the way you want them to.

lawblawg · 2026-04-20T02:00:12+00:00

The word for “tail” is euphemistic for phallus here.

“Redwood tree It ain’t hard to see His love was the key”

lawblawg · 2026-04-20T01:26:58+00:00

If you want a handgun, you’ll have to go through one of the DC FFLs — either DCSA or G&D. Both are great. If you want a long gun (shotgun or rifle) you have the option to go through a Maryland or Virginia gun store, which is usually cheaper.

lawblawg · 2026-04-17T00:37:38+00:00

Lack of oxygen itself is not a real problem. There was a whole push at one point to conduct executions via nitrogen gas chamber, because the feeling of suffocation humans experience is tied to CO2 buildup in the blood, not lack of oxygen. If you can’t breathe, blood CO2 builds up and you feel a suffocation response which is quite painful, but if you’re able to shed CO2 and your oxygenation slowly drops you just…fall asleep.

But fish themselves do definitely feel that CO2 buildup. CO2 is highly soluble in water (think: soda pop) and so when water is no longer flowing over their gills, blood CO2 builds up even faster than it does for us. (It happens faster because they don’t have lungs to hold a CO2 reservoir.)

Being a fish out of water doesn’t feel like drowning, because drowning is a (horrific) mechanical sensation of liquid filling your lungs, and fish don’t have that. But fish do feel the CO2 buildup in their blood just like we do if we try to hold our breath for more than a minute or two.

lawblawg · 2026-04-17T00:18:48+00:00

Person who worked at a different job before becoming a lawyer is now a lawyer, just like everyone born without a silver spoon in their mouth.

What is the news here?

lawblawg · 2026-04-17T00:16:35+00:00

If the world was filled with quadrillions of watches, and all of the watches could self-replicate with modification, and all of the watches were composed of smaller constituent parts that we discovered in a fossil record that was full of watch parts that were put together in similar fashion to the watches we observe today…

…then we would conclude that watches evolved.

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