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March 9, 2013, 10:58 AM | #1 |
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The Future of Gun Rights
Here is a vet who was charged with a misdemenor for punching a guy in the nose in 1968 who had previously attacked him. He's been a gun owner for all this time with no other convictions. Now the ATF says he can't own a gun.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/veteran-...XBhZ2U-;_ylv=3 Our Civial Rights are under fire. Don't believe the rhetoric that lawmakers support the second amendment and just want reasonable gun control. |
March 9, 2013, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Feinstein: Veterans & PTSD
Feinstein: Veterans
At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment to her Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would allow military veterans to continue to buy the firearms that would be banned. Feinstein says a veteran may be mentally ill and should be prevented from purchasing firearms. The California Democrat also made the bizarre claim that the “advent of PTSD” is a “new phenomenon” and a “product of the Iraq war.” Here’s exactly what she said in context: “The problem with expanding this is that, you know, with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, it’s not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this.” |
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She's relying on the fact that the term itself "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" is relatively new, just a newer name for the same old disorder.
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March 9, 2013, 01:11 PM | #5 |
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This is pretty unbelievable,
wondering if the NRA is getting involved in this, perhaps a campaign of phone calls to reps are appropriate here sunaj |
March 9, 2013, 05:13 PM | #6 |
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It appears that part of the issue is that Maryland uses a "maximum possible sentence" threshold to determine whether to strip gun rights, rather than a "felony or misdemeanor" test.
So does this mean that *anyone* in Maryland who's been convicted of misdemeanor assault has lost their gun rights? |
March 9, 2013, 05:30 PM | #7 | |
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The most interesting thing that I took away from the video is that Alan Gura has taken his case pro bono, so I presume that Mr. Gura thinks it's a good test case to challenge the MD law. (He must have some way of cloning himself, to handle all the cases he takes on... )
According to the NRA/ILA website, 'Maryland has no constitutional provision granting a “right to bear arms.”' This may account for Mr. Gura's interest in this particular case. Quote:
Persons who have been convicted of a crime of violence, any Maryland-classified felony, conspiracy to commit a felony, a common law crime for which the person received a term of imprisonment for more than two years, or any Maryland-classified misdemeanor that carries a statutory penalty of more than two years.(My emphasis.)I take this to mean that any crime of violence, whether felony or misdemeanor, would disqualify someone from owning a gun.
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