Fed. Court Ruling Opens Door To Gun Rights Restoration For Certain Misdemeanors

canadafreepress.com ^ | 9/27/2014 | Second Amendment Foundation

[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).

[rktman]

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?

[FlingWingFlyer]

They can now take away your Second Amendment rights for littering and jaywalking? Are you kidding me?

[JimRed]

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.

[rktman]

LOL! My wife thinks, sometimes, I shouldn’t be running around loose in a lot of cases.

[apillar]

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.