[supercat]

The problem has not been fixed. Since when do you lose a constitutional right for a misdemeanor conviction? I guess when that constitutional right has been demoted to a semi- constitutional privilege.

And ex post facto too, no less.

[Jerrybob]

The Lautenberg Amendment is one of the most heinous things to come along from our federal government in a long time. For those who don't know, it goes back into a person's past and, if any conviction of any domestic violence of any kind can be found, no matter how slight, that person loses his or her right to own or possess any kind of firearm (I think that correctly states it).

When I first saw this in print, I seriously thought it was a bad joke. When I realized it wasn't, I wrote a letter to my U.S. Senator, then Senator Spencer Abraham from Michigan, now Secretary of Energy. He wrote me a personal letter and said that, in effect, the crime of domestic violence is such a serious problem that, when a person commits it, he or she loses his or her PRIVILEGE to own or possess a firearm. That was HIS WORD: PRIVILEGE.

I was so stunned that a U.S. Senator would not even know enough to call it a RIGHT....

I pretty much have never gotten over that.

And I still have the letter he sent me. Something like that you don't get rid of....