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In reply to the discussion: FEDS: KY. MAN WHO RAN OBAMA ROADBLOCK WAS ARMED [View all]slackmaster
(60,567 posts)14. Perhaps morally culpable, but not legally. Here is a snipped from the United States Code on that...
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18 USC § 922:
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(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person
(1) is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
(2) is a fugitive from justice;
(3) is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));
(4) has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;
(5) who, being an alien
(A) is illegally or unlawfully in the United States; or
(B) except as provided in subsection (y)(2), has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(26)));
(6) who [2] has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
(7) who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his citizenship;
(8) is subject to a court order that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child, except that this paragraph shall only apply to a court order that
(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had the opportunity to participate; and
(B)
(i) includes a finding that such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child; or
(ii) by its terms explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury; or
(9) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
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Yes, mosquitoes are blameless. They are just trying to put food on their family! n/t
AAO
Sep 2012
#39
The simplest way would be keeping people with extensive criminal records locked up
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#7
Perhaps morally culpable, but not legally. Here is a snipped from the United States Code on that...
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#14
That can be fixed by making the NICS background check system available to people who aren't Type 01
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#13
That costs money. It doesn't make sense for people to do that if they have a choice.
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#20
It would be pretty fucked up to have to pay $35 to sell an old shotgun for $50
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#22
I have a rifle and three pistols in my car. Think I'll run that police road block.
geckosfeet
Sep 2012
#8
I love how Americans consider "the mentally ill" some sort of evil monolith! (nt)
Posteritatis
Sep 2012
#38
Just once I'd like to NOT see "guns" and "history of mental illness" in the same story...
Blue_Tires
Sep 2012
#40