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President Trump’s Felony Conviction & Firearms Possession ~ VIDEO
AmmoLand ^ | January 24, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 01/31/2025 6:20:31 AM PST by marktwain

Former and Current President Trump is now a convicted felon in the State of New York.

The abuse of the judicial system by the prosecutor and judge is some of the worst seen by astute, leftist legal commentators, such as Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz.

Dershowitz goes so far as calling him “a convicted innocent man”. He says there were 34 non-crimes President Trump was convicted of.

At left of center Politifact, this question was raised: From politifact:

President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 10 felony sentencing raised questions on social media about his rights: Can he vote, travel internationally and own a gun? 

Yes, likely, and no.

It is unlikely the guilty verdict in the outrageous anti-Trump lawfare case in New York will survive for long.  When President Trump is sworn in to office, Presidential immunity will apply for his second term in his presidency. The verdict will almost certainly be reversed long before that term ends. As Jonathan Turley notes:

The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.”

It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses.

In spite of a looming reversal, the conviction has positive implications for Second Amendment supporters and supporters of limited government in general.


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President Trump has ample reason to know how much the federal gun laws need to be reformed.
1 posted on 01/31/2025 6:20:32 AM PST by marktwain
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I think that most people, at least those who do not cheer when it is used against the people they dont like, are appalled at the selective “lawfare” that they have witnessed the last 4 years against DJT. ALL these crooked people with power need to go, period.


2 posted on 01/31/2025 6:34:52 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: marktwain

I think that most people, at least those who do not cheer when it is used against the people they dont like, are appalled at the selective “lawfare” that they have witnessed the last 4 years against DJT. ALL these crooked people with power need to go, period.


3 posted on 01/31/2025 6:34:52 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: marktwain
Sad, it takes a President being a 'felon' to get this in the conversation on gun rights. The example I always give is Sean Taylor. A world class athlete and felon, who had to confront armed intruders with a baseball bat because he wasn't allowed to own a gun.
4 posted on 01/31/2025 6:35:06 AM PST by Theoria
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To: marktwain

If Trump were to decide to leave from JFK for an international trip, would Bragg try to have him arrested?


5 posted on 01/31/2025 6:41:10 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies

Kind of OT, but this cannot possibly be allowed to stand. "Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to "predicate offenses" as much as it applies anywhere else.

6 posted on 01/31/2025 8:10:04 AM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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Now that Pres Trump has been sentenced, can he not appeal?


7 posted on 01/31/2025 8:38:06 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Yes. Appeals are in process.


8 posted on 01/31/2025 9:15:53 AM PST by marktwain
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Pre-1968 would be nice, or even earlier.


9 posted on 01/31/2025 9:34:58 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes, pre-1968 would be great.

Trump is transactional. Perhaps he will ask for repeal of 1968, and settle for taking silencers, short barreled rifles, and short barreled shotguns out of the NFA.


10 posted on 01/31/2025 9:47:39 AM PST by marktwain
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There is no clause in the Second Amendment that allows for bans on keeping and bearing arms by convicted felons. None.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 11:45:27 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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The Supreme Court says the right to keep and bear arms must be applied as it was in 1791. That is, its meaning in 2025 is to be as close as possible to what it was understood to be in 1791.

So.. there were very few felonies in 1791. You could be imprisoned for all of them. Some of them, you could be executed for.

The argument is, if you could be executed for a particular felony, such as murder, you could be deprived of your Constitutional rights, as a lesser punishment.

This would not apply to all modern felonies, of which there are a multitude.

That is the argument.


12 posted on 01/31/2025 1:04:03 PM PST by marktwain
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