Trey Gowdy says the gun charges against Hunter are uncommon

[Nevilledog]

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Trey Gowdy on Hunter Biden charges: I did gun prosecutions for 6 years ... I bet you there weren't 10 cases prosecuted nationwide of addicts or unlawful drugs users who possessed firearms or lied on applications ... which makes you wonder, why are you pursuing this one?"


6:36 AM · Jun 4, 2024

This charge is usually accompanied with other crimes. The stand-alone charge is exceedingly rare.

[TwilightZone]

1. As adamant as the GOP is about 2A, I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this.

Not that surprised, because hypocrisy is pretty much their thing, but this is exactly the kind of case that they'd be screaming about if the target was a Republican.

[Nevilledog]

2. The law has been ruled unconstitutional in one appellate circuit.

Federal appeals court strikes down law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/appeals-court-firearms-illegal-drug-users/index.html


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A federal appeals court in August struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms – another blow to US gun regulations after the Supreme Court cleared the way for courts to reexamine the nation’s gun laws under a new legal standard – and a ruling that could be relevant in the new indictment of Hunter Biden.

In a unanimous judgment from a three-judge panel of the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the court said the 1968 law is unconstitutional, citing a landmark 2022 Supreme Court decision that changes the framework that lower courts must use when analyzing gun restrictions.

“In short, our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage,” Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, a Ronald Reagan appointee, wrote for the panel. “Nor do more generalized traditions of disarming dangerous persons support this restriction on nonviolent drug users.”

The ruling means that the man who brought the challenge to the regulation, Patrick Daniels, will have his July 2022 conviction under the law thrown out. Daniels had been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and three years of probation.

*snip*

[marble falls]

3. That's because Trey Gowdy was town prosecuter in traffic court, Andy Taylor, presiding ...

... the law was meant to be used to enhance other major crimes. Used as a stand alone charge often enough if that is is all they could get on someone pinched for suspicion in another crime or given by a cop who stopped someone for being a jerk in a traffic stop.

[Nevilledog]

8. Wut?!?

https://www.treygowdy.com/biography

From 1994-2000, as a federal prosecutor, Trey prosecuted the full range of federal crimes including narcotics trafficking, bank robbery, car jacking, kidnapping, child pornography cases, and the murder of a federal witness. He was awarded the Postal Inspector’s Award for the successful prosecution of J. Mark Allen, one of “America’s Most Wanted” suspects. He also received the highest performance rating a federal prosecutor can receive – two years in a row.

[Boomerproud]

4. Repubs just want him in jail.

That's the bottom line. If the verdict isn't what they want, the reaction will be intolerable.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. The Republicans bullied Weiss into moving forward with this IMHO

They need their Democratic "convicted felon" to match up against their own. Of course, it's totally not equivalent but they're going to push for it to appear that way so that Joe is a "convicted-felon-by-association".

[SarahD]

6. Gun huggers should support Hunter Biden.

Many of them are on the wrong side of federal law because they know it's rare to prosecute for filling out a form incorrectly. They know they will skate as long as they don't call attention to themselves. They're disturbed by the notion that they could work out a plea deal and have it torpedoes on a firearms violation.

[tanyev]

7. Funny how some GOP politicians start sounding smarter after they leave office.

Not haha funny, though.