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The ACLU offered to help a homegrown Nazi (no, really, an American Nazi) in Lincoln, Nebraska a few years ago. He had been convicted of publishing Nazi literature in Europe and had been lured over there to be arrested. He spent a short time in jail there. Anyway, when he came back, he tried to buy a handgun and was turned down.

He went to court saying that they Government could not use that European conviction against him, because what he did was not a crime in the US (first amendment rights). The ACLU got a lot of print by offering to represent him. He accepted. Shortly before the case was to be heard, they withdrew. There was VERY little press coverage on the ACLU withdrawing. He lost his case.