Not a citizen. Seems like he should not be buying guns to begin with. Jail and deport him.
My impression was much the same, but (hat tip to sickoflibs) it seems that they can purchase firearms if the state laws allow a hunting license.
If that’s the law, that is one thing, but being in this country under a legal visa as a non-citizen still probably means you can be surveilled legally by the government in ways that citizens cannot. Not saying that is bad, either.
I’m with you. Freepers get all misty eyed anytime anybody gets in trouble with firearms (that’s because we’ve been infested of late with libertarians), but the Constitution doesn’t apply to non-citizens.
Nope, under certain conditions resident aliens are allowed to purchase firearms.
You do realize that non-citizens have all the same rights, except for voting, that citizens do?
Whether it is free speech, the right to due process, etc. - I see nothing that says the 2A is any different.
I’m a naturalized citizen, I went through the process.
Although he is not a citizen, he was able to buy a gun legally.
The whole case against him hinges on the word of a cop who says he saw him shooting with a 30 round mag. It sounds like that may be a lie.
I too think a non-citizen shouldn’t be able to buy a gun, but to jail and deport him over this, if he is innocent, is exactly the kind of thing gungrabbers would like to do to all of us.
“Not a citizen. Seems like he should not be buying guns to begin with.”
That is not U.S. law.
Uphold the law or change it.
By the way, a person does not have to be a citizen to tote a machine gun for the U.S. government.
Not a citizen. Seems like he should not be buying guns to begin with. Jail and deport him.
My first thought our Constitution is for America’s citizens.
6 months here on a visa would disqualify from firearms ownership, use.
What would they do in Mexico? Now that is Freeper Funny,.
Really? As it states in the article, he followed the law. The law allows him to purchase firearms, as it should. The supreme court has ruled multiple times that legal aliens have the same constitutional rights as a citizen does. If the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments apply to legal aliens, so does the 2nd.