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Since when has it been illegal for felons to have guns?
- Thread starter Correia
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I can't be too helpful but I think that you are referring to the Federal law. There is both federal and state law with respect to felons owning guns. The original federal law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1971(U.S. v. Bass?). So obviously it was passed prior to that. I don't know what substantive changes were made to the law but the Feds still seem to be imposing a federal law even though following the Lopez(95'?) decision it logically follows that the federal law is unconstitutional.
Of course, almost all states have laws against felons owning firearms, but some differentiate based on the type of felony.
Of course, almost all states have laws against felons owning firearms, but some differentiate based on the type of felony.
Here's a link to the law:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/unframed/18/922.html
The part you want is in section (d).
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/unframed/18/922.html
The part you want is in section (d).
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Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Various states addressed this issue many decades past.
FWIW, if you read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, you find that both sides agreed that "felons, the insane, and persons of ill-repute" (or words to that effect) should not be allowed to bear arms. As near as I can tell, it was assumed by the writers of our Constitution that the state governments would deal with this issue.
In Texas, a non-federal felon may have guns in his home, but not outside the home. He can't hunt nor target-shoot, but he can defend himself in his home.
FWIW, Art
FWIW, if you read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, you find that both sides agreed that "felons, the insane, and persons of ill-repute" (or words to that effect) should not be allowed to bear arms. As near as I can tell, it was assumed by the writers of our Constitution that the state governments would deal with this issue.
In Texas, a non-federal felon may have guns in his home, but not outside the home. He can't hunt nor target-shoot, but he can defend himself in his home.
FWIW, Art
ellsworthtoohey
New member
The problem today is that fully half of convicted felons, counting the 50 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, are serving time for noncriminal acts which have been declared, by edict, to be illegal felonies.
The link to that other thread is; www.thefiringline.com/NonCGl/Forum13/HTML/004288.html
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The link to that other thread is; www.thefiringline.com/NonCGl/Forum13/HTML/004288.html
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"I don't believe in individualism, Peter. I don't believe that any one man is any one thing which everybody else can't be. I believe that we are all equal and interchangeable."--Ellsworth Toohey
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CHEMNCO917
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1981 for Missouri
...http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/c500-599/5710095.htm
...http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/c500-599/5710095.htm