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PDistrict of Columbia law bans handgun possession by making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibiting the registration of handguns provides separately that no person may carry an unlicensed handgun but authorizes the police chief to issue 1year licenses and requires residents to keep lawfully owned firearms unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device. nbsp ... — Random feeds from Syndic8.com
After a move, it's a bit dissembled -- I need to get out the staple gun and re-do it, otherwise I'd post a pic! posted by Christine (the one in DC) hey chris - great suggestion. — Apartment Therapy Main
The superiority of Pope is so ingeniously dissembled, and the feeble lines of Philips so skilfully preferred, that Steele, being deceived, was unwilling to print the paper, lest Pope should be offended. — The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
If indeed a crime Dissembling must be call'd,--dissembled both If faulty all delay, the first I came A tender wife me kept; a tender tie A mother, kept Achilles. — The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
He dissembled, and got quickly to bed. — Sons and Lovers