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Obama Using the Charleston Tragedy to Infringe on Your Gun Rights
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Roof had a misdemeanor conviction, but, barring domestic violence, that wasn’t enough. Roof had been arrested on a felony drug charge, but apparently, he hadn’t been indicted.
So the FBI is arguing that if it had more money, it would have discovered that Roof was “an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance…” [18 U.S.C. 922(d)(3)].
This archaic and little-used provision has largely gone into the trashcan for a reason: absent the conviction of a crime in a court of law, how is the government to know if one is using a controlled substance unlawfully?
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mickey
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Hey, I know!
Let's subject the entire population to daily blood tests for drugs, and add all the positive tests to the NICS database.
/sarcasm |
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