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Fed. Court Ruling Opens Door To Gun Rights Restoration For Certain Misdemeanors
canadafreepress.com ^
| 9/27/2014
| Second Amendment Foundation
Posted on 09/28/2014 9:37:51 AM PDT by rktman
The Second Amendment Foundation has quietly won a significant federal court victory in a Pennsylvania case in which the judge has ruled that a man convicted of a serious misdemeanor crime several years ago, but who has demonstrated that he would present no more threat to the community than an average law-abiding citizen, may not lose his Second Amendment rights under a federal gun control statute known as 922(g)(1).
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
So that speeding ticket I got a few years ago shouldn't be used to deny me my rights after all. LOL! Remember the good old days when it was felons that were restricted?
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posted on
09/28/2014 9:37:51 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
They can now take away your Second Amendment rights for littering and jaywalking? Are you kidding me?
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posted on
09/28/2014 9:41:01 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
To: rktman
There should be NO weapons restrictions on any free person. Anyone who can’t be trusted to be armed should not be running around loose.
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posted on
09/28/2014 9:53:48 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: JimRed
LOL! My wife thinks, sometimes, I shouldn’t be running around loose in a lot of cases.
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posted on
09/28/2014 10:00:09 AM PDT
by
rktman
("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
To: rktman
I think the discrepancy is on the definition of a felony, federal law says you lose your gun rights if you are convicted of a crime in which you could be imprisoned for over 1 year, which in most cases would be a felony, however some states have misdemeanors which carry the possibility of over a year in prison. So under federal law even though you were never convicted of a felony, you would still lose your gun rights because the potential sentence was over a year.
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posted on
09/28/2014 10:19:30 AM PDT
by
apillar
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