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FESJIAN v. JEFFERSON

Nos. 13183, 13184 and 13186.

399 A.2d 861 (1979)

Robert A. FESJIAN, Petitioner, v. Burtell M. JEFFERSON, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department, Respondent. Robert J. BUENZLE, Petitioner, v. Burtell M. JEFFERSON, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department, Respondent. Arthur P. DAVIS, Jr., Petitioner, v. Burtell M. JEFFERSON, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 19, 1979.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Fesjian, pro se.

Robert J. Buenzle, pro se.

Arthur P. Davis, Jr., pro se, adopted brief of petitioner Buenzle.

Louis P. Robbins, Acting Corp. Counsel, Richard W. Barton, Deputy Corp. Counsel and Dennis McDaniel, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for respondent.

Before KELLY, NEBEKER and MACK, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

These consolidated petitions from a refusal by respondent to register certain firearms present a number of arguments. The arguments challenge the legality of a discrimination between owners of different weapons, the validity of a legislative definition of a machine gun, and the constitutionality of the registration statute which petitioners assert constitutes a prohibited Fifth Amendment "taking." Petitioners also claim that their firearms...

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