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To: wardaddy
It's just another way to outlaw gunowners if not guns. I believe that somewhere around 1 in 7 adult males are disenfranchised as such either federally or otherwise....and growing.

What's especially galling is the notion that "felonies" don't even require any prison time. If someone is convicted of any crime for which he could theoretically have been sentenced to over a year in prison, he's a "felon" even if the facts of your case wouldn't support anything near such a sentence. One example that comes to mind is a person with an otherwise-clean record who plead guilty to being an accessory to the theft of a case of beer off an open porch. Because the "theft" statute provided up to IIRC a three-year sentence, the person became a "felon" even though there is probably no judge who would have given even a six-month sentence given the facts of the case.

69 posted on 01/26/2004 10:10:30 PM PST by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
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To: supercat
and domestic abuse charges which might otherwise be a misdemeanor or the misdemeanors a number of states use as grounds for revoking gun rights

it goes on and on.

and no politician will touch this one....the NRA sure won't either though GOA and others have protested.

Hell, the NRA is complicit indirectly at a minimum.
70 posted on 01/26/2004 10:47:05 PM PST by wardaddy ("either the arabs are at your throat, or at your feet")
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