In a 2018 case out of Adams County, a woman was convicted for purchasing a firearm that her common-law husband, a convicted felon, could access. In an appeal of that conviction, a three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled in a precedent-setting opinion Thursday that’s the same as transferring a firearm to an ineligible person even if it isn’t a permanent transaction. [More]
Think of it as direct and indirect ERPOs to disarm two citizens without due process for the price of one!
And if you hand over a gun at the range to share with someone, any bets it won't be up to you to prove you didn't know?
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I don't understand the implication that this is somehow new gun law. "Constructive possession" has always been forbidden. If I share a home with someone forbidden to possess guns, I am supposed to keep them on my person or in a safe they can't access. I always wondered how G. Gordon Liddy could get away with even joking about his wife "keeping some of her guns on his side of the bed" without getting hammered.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget "conservative" Judge Jeanine.
ReplyDeleteAnd the crowd went wild.
What bothers me is the term "could access it"... Did he actually access it or was this pre-crime.
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