Well, if you consider a process that is longer, more expensive, and more complicated than getting married or divorced, then, yeah, it's a piece of cake.

While the process isn't so difficult to navigate, it's by no means easy or cheap. Throughout the process, there are no options. All applicants MUST make at least thrree trips to police headquarters where parking is to say, in the least hard to find. Yes, it's near a Metro, but do you want to take your new gun for a ride on Metro?

All applicants must make at least two trips to Anacostia, where the only licensed dealer is located. Parking isn't an issue, but it's hardly centrally located [yeah, and it's dangerous as hell.-ed.]. All applicants MUST pay $60 in fees to the city, $125 transfer fee to the dealer as well as the cost of passport photos and a notary.

Applicants should budget an extra $200 on top of the price of the gun.

As for the written test, out of 20 questions, I got one wrong. Most of the questions are taken right out of the Firearms Registration Outline that comes in the application packet. I won't give any of the questions here [the first time a reporter held back on information. But I digress.-ed.], but it was much easier than the written test for a driver's license. (I got four wrong on that test recently.)[yeah, and more morons will drive than ever own a legal handgun. Your point again?-ed.]

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