Second amendy
This sounds a lot more like a States’ Rights issue than a 2nd Amendment issue. VA chooses to allow (some) felons to re-acquire the right to own and use firearms, whereas MD does not. That does not violate the 2nd, which affirms the general right to bear arms. The Tenth amendment (presumably) provides for states to abrogate certain rights under certain circumstances, similarly to the 14th-amendment provision for losing one’s franchise for certain crimes.
Overall, from the limited amount of reading I’ve done on this, this is an area that is still being litigated (loss of certain rights after conviction). Right now, the MD situation is still the law, so unless the law gets changed, the guy is stuck. If he didn’t want to become subject to MD’s laws, he shouldn’t have moved there.
I’m not sure I see a problem with the particular case used as an example here. A convicted felon has partial rights restored in the state he committed the felony, including gun ownership rights and then moves to Maryland where the state denies rights to felons unless the the felon receives a full pardon.
I think that most states do not restore all rights to felons without a full pardon. Live a good life for a while and then apply for a pardon and all is well. If you don’t get it remember to tell your kids to not be convicted felon.
One thing about the Second Amendment that enrages me is that states can pass laws to regulate it.No such laws exist with the 5th Amendment....it’s universal nationwide,so why the 2nd?
No, this isn’t a 2nd amendment issue, he is a felon.
If this keeps up, it will be the duty and responsibility of the U.S. citizens to exercise our Second Amendment rights to remind the politicians and “judges” what the Second Amendment is all about.
Federal law prohibits any person convicted of a felony from possessing firearms. No matter what a particular state might say. So he couldn’t have legally had a firearm in Virginia, either.
No less than the Cato Institute has said in past years that our Supreme Court tends to uphold modern government’s statist laws, rather than strike them down.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!