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Do medical marijuana users have right to bear arms? No, says ATF
MSNBC ^
| 09/29/2011
| Matt Volz
Posted on 09/29/2011 9:35:55 AM PDT by LonelyCon
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If medical marijuana is grown, sold, and used in one state, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, and the Feds. don't have the Constitutional authority to regulate it. Now they're trying to deny Second-Amendment rights to those whose states allow them to posses and use marijuana. Any excuse to grab the guns of law-abiding Americans.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:36:00 AM PDT
by
LonelyCon
To: LonelyCon
Federal firearm licensees, or FFLs, can't sell a gun to someone who answers "yes" when a required form asks whether the buyer is a controlled substance user. But FFLs can sell guns, preferable in bulk and of an "assault" nature, to someone who answers "yes" when a required form asks whether the buyer is strawman for a Mexican drug cartel.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:39:44 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: LonelyCon
ATF cant seem to get anything right...close em down.
To: LonelyCon
But if you want to buy guns to smuggle them over the border..
Well that’s OK then cuz the BATF will just look the other way.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:40:41 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: LonelyCon
The issue here is, to me, anyway, is allowing ATF or any other agency so much discretionary power.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:41:49 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:42:36 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
To: LonelyCon; bamahead
The government will use ANY excuse to try and deny Second Amendment rights to people, and the fact that they over step to Commerce clause doesn't mean a damn thing to them!
I think this may call for a Libertarian Ping!
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:42:36 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
To: LonelyCon
Given the vast majority of medical marijuana users are also liberals, I expect this will be changed quickly.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:42:57 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Cain for President - Because I Like The Content of His Character!)
To: LonelyCon
re: the atf.. this is fast and furious, but too good not to share and didn't want to start a thread..
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:43:01 AM PDT
by
rokkitapps
( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
To: SWAMPSNIPER
If it were up to your average ATF bureaucrat,
no one (except government agents) would have the right to bear arms.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:43:25 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: LonelyCon
Druggies will beg borrow and steal to try and put their drug usage in a debate. Sorry Illegal is illegal.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:43:44 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
To: Erik Latranyi
Where is your source for that claim?
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:44:44 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Those who are easily shocked... should be shocked more often. - Mae West)
To: LonelyCon
Technically, even prescription drugs are “controlled substances”. It sounds like they could adminstratively declare it also applies to anyone taking any kind of prescription medication if they want to.
To: LonelyCon
Federal law already makes it illegal for someone to possess a gun if he or she is "an unlawful user of, or addicted to" marijuana or other controlled substances. I'd sure like to see that statute.
How do they determine that without a conviction for the "unlawful" act?.
It takes a felony conviction to lose your right to possess a handgun here. Most states are a mere misdemeanor for usage or possession of pot, aren't they?
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:45:09 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: Kartographer
ping...kind of along the lines we were discussing
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:46:35 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(,FURP....that was easy)
To: LonelyCon
There is something I don’t quite understand? If a person is allowed to have medical marijuana then it isn’t illegal correct? It is a controlled substance no different than if one is prescribed Tylenol #3 for a toothache or a muscle relaxer for a back condition. So... will ATF deny anyone the right to bear arms if they had been/are currently on any controlled pharmaceutical drug?
To: LonelyCon
It would be nice if the BATF were to follow the law first. You know, so they could set a good example for the rest of us.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: LonelyCon
Do people with codeine have a right to bear arms? What about oxi? Prescriptions are prescriptions, even if the fed doesn’t like some of them.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:51:00 AM PDT
by
discostu
(How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
To: org.whodat
Stupid, lazy and cowardly American illegal drug users are so stupid, lazy and chicken that they won’t change their reality, so they use illegal drugs to try and hide from their reality for a few minutes and thereby fund some of the most vile and vicious criminals this world has ever know.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:52:13 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: svcw
Where is your source for that claim?None, just my understanding of liberals.
If you were libertarian, you would support legalization.....not a backdoor legalization under the auspices of medical need.
Libertarians that support medical marijuana are not libertarians.
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posted on
09/29/2011 9:55:29 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Cain for President - Because I Like The Content of His Character!)
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