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.

We are in dangerous times! We are NOT meeting our funding goals! Will you help out?

Trump Signs Executive Order to Fast-Track Concealed Carry Permits in D.C. ~ VIDEO

Do you Know Carol Bowne? An Open Letter to the Assembly of New Jersey, et.al.