Posted on 10/25/2010 5:39:24 AM PDT by Idabilly
Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record.
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And that’s a big universe, isn’t it?
Oppositional defiant disorder: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia ***
Oppositional defiant disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures. Causes
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001537.htm
When explaining this to someone, I got the question
“wouldn’t this be applied to all the brat teenagers being raised to defy their parents?”
Nope. Defying parents is “PC”. Defying government is a disorder.
The Universe of MCDV Offenses
Who made the determination that this was/is legal? An AG?
Read this...
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1998_register&docid=fr30jn98-11
The federal definition of a felony is any offense for which you could have received a sentence of over one year's imprisonment, even if a lesser or suspended sentence was actually imposed. Neither did it have to be from a federal court; any conviction anywhere counted, even 1$ hunting/fishing violations and traffic offenses.
It was for this reason that Senator Ted Kennedy was referred to as a *convicted felon* after leaving the scene of the Mary Jo Kochpecne drowning. Though he did not receive a 1-year-plus sentence in that case [he got a suspended sentence, of course- he was a Kennedy, after all- he could have received up to three years.
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