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As far as the second amendment, where does it say criminals shouldn’t own guns? Are you suggesting felons should be able to buy guns because the second amendment does not state they shouldn’t??? c’mon, get real here. Not everything is about the constitution, you have to apply some rational thinking too.
There is a Constitutional argument that convicted felons who have fulfilled their sentence and been released from prison as a free man/woman should be able to possess firearms as any other free man.
Do not all free men have the right to self-defense?
Do they not need the tools with which to provide themselves with self-defense?
Imagine a convicted felon who after serving his sentence is released and has to make his way in society. He has to find gainful employment with a criminal record. He is like to struggle to make money to live on. He is likely to have to settle in a low rent place to live with the attendant high crime that is there. If he is to survive does he not need a means of self-defense more than most? If we as a society deny him the tools to survive, then how can we expect him to support that society that seeks his death?
The Gun Control Act of 1968 makes it illegal for any person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a year or more “to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition.”
18 U.S.C. Sec. 922(g)(1).
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in the 2003 case of
Black v. Snow (272 F. Supp. 2d 21), this does not mean that a convicted felon “is forever barred from possessing firearms.” Id at 24.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit provided a test for determining whether a person convicted of a federal crime predicated on a state offense has had their rights restored in
U.S. v. Dupaquier, 74 F.3d 615 (1996). In that case, a man who had been convicted under various drug-related state offenses was later arrested and charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The defendant argued that since more than 10 years had elapsed since his last conviction, his civil rights had been restored and thus, under federal law, he was no longer considered a convicted felon. The court ultimately agreed with the defendant’s position, ....
What seems to be the real concern of many people is that there are so many violent felons out on parole (as distinguished from those ho have completed their sentence) who are not free and are still a danger to society.
So actually it is all about the U.S. Constitution. The U.S.A. is a nation of laws not men.
...its up to the sherrif if u can get one...still 21 to buy it or the ammo...but I can carry as many as I like..not just one..its un restricted ...on my person in my truck..as long as its concealed