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Javelina
However, I do acknowledge that criminals should not be allowed to own guns, nor should lunatics. And, I acknowledge that if someone is plotting to murder policemen, then he should be picked up and have his guns confiscated until we're sure he isn't a threat.

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This can be accomplished as part of a sentacing proceedure or committment hearing. There is no need for a blanket Law that affects the law abiding.

All gun control laws presuppose criminal intent without due process and are un-Constitutional on their face completely apart from the Second.

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Notice our legal whiz had no answer to your comment on the due process of prohibitory type laws on the possession of property.
[as in life, liberty & property]

Well made constitutional point, one that the closet authoritarians among us are unable to face.