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All I want to do here is clarify a couple points.
Re: "mentally ill & owing guns" The key word is "adjudicated".
A diagnosed Paranoid Skizophrenic can waltz into any gun shop & buy a firearm legally. The mentally ill person has not been adjudicated, that is ruled by an offical or court as mentally ill & or dangerously mentally ill.
Re: Domestic violence, 1st conviction is a misdemeanor.
Domestic violence does not mean a person who whacks a spouse.
It can be a person that spanks a child & was criminally charged with
"domestic assult" which later became domestic violence even well after the law prohibted gun ownership.
It does not extend to just GUN ownership either. A person convicted of such can't even own a bullet or part of a cartridge.
There were cases in which a person convicted of domestic assult 10 years prior to Bill Clintons adding D.V. to a Crime bill lost rights to own firearms.
One case in particular I remember. A man learned his 16 year old daughter was pregnant, smacked her rump pretty good.
The child complains to the school officials, Protective Services intervene, dad gets charged with domestic assult 10 years prior d.v. laws.
Dad chooses to simply plead no contest to avoid lawyer fees & 10 years later looses his right to own a firearm.
That just ain't even almost right!
Police officers & military personel lost jobs due to the Clinton "crime bill" years after the alleged assult occured.
Retroactive punishment.
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