Clarification of prohibited persons
The older Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits firearms ownership in the US by certain broad categories of individuals thought to pose a threat to public safety. However, this list differed between the House and the Senate versions of the bill, and led to great confusion. This list was later augmented, modified, and clarified in the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The 1986 list is:
* Anyone who has been convicted in any court of, a felony punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, excluding those crimes punishable by imprisonment related to the regulation of business practices.
* Anyone who is a fugitive from justice.
* Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substances.
* Anyone who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
* Any alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States or an alien admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa. The exception is if the nonimmigrant is in possession of a valid hunting license issued by a US state.
* Anyone who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions.
* Anyone who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his or her citizenship.
* Anyone that is subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of such intimate partner. (Added in 1996, with the Lautenberg Amendment.)
* Anyone who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. (Added in 1996, with the Lautenberg Amendment)[10]
* A person who is under indictment or information for a crime (misdemeanor) punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding two years cannot lawfully receive a firearm. Such person may continue to lawfully possess firearms obtained prior to the indictment or information, and if cleared or acquitted can receive firearms without restriction.
Oh, and those accused of certain misdemeanor crimes. Forgot that one (as per items on the list from the Violence Against Women Act passed by both socialist, anti-family political parties in Congress). And why don’t we eliminate Second Amendment rights for all who are unemployed? That way, most of those (we) who are not receiving incomes from government will be stripped of their (our) Second Amendment rights. [Loaded with irony and sarcasm.]
As for politics, I’m a pro-family anti-socialist. There’s no political party for pro-family anti-socialists. All in politics are fighting each other for the declining pile of debt. As for Second Amendment rights and criminals: time served, rights respected and observed. Most dangerous criminals should be executed to begin with. Same for the incompetent. Bring back the insane asylums and keep the more dangerous kooks where they can be watched.
Political folks have been hysterical and shrieking to end this or that scary thing for decades. Bad things aren’t going to end. But bring back and enforce morality as was done more than a couple of hundred years ago, rates of violent crimes will go way down.