If you live in a Safe School/No Gun zone and you have firearms in your home would be illegal firearms possession.
The any crime carrying a punishment of one year or more in jail has a couple of troubling items. 1) a person sentenced to 1 year for tax evasion, or similar crimes, should not be stripped of Second Amendment right, and 2) it says 'carrying a punishment of one year or more', so does that mean that if a person is convicted of a crime that carries a one year or more penalty but is only sentenced to 60 days, for instance, he still looses his Second Amendment right?
Your tax evasion example is stripped of their right under current laws, same for what Martha Stewart was convicted of. The laws right now are that if the conviction of a crime that could carry a year or more, you lose your right. Even if you don't serve a day, but get probation, you still lose your right.
That's insane. Theoretically, government could extend all school zones to where they touched giving a city or county a blanket 'no gun zone', thereby converting law abiding citizens into criminals.
same for what Martha Stewart was convicted of.
Poor Martha!
Even if you don't serve a day, but get probation, you still lose your right.
That was my point. Over zealous lawmakers, especially ones with a gun control agenda, could begin slowly changing the minimum sentences to one year or more of many crimes that are currently less than one year in order to be able to round up more firearms.