c919
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I have yet to research this and perhaps someone here could chime in as to the truth of the matter. As I see it, if it's true it's messed up, if it's false it's messed up in different way.
So here's the back story. I have a childhood friend who is currently incarcerated, but soon to be released. Growing up, he was just your average middle class kid, then he got into some bad stuff (ie drugs). He never did anything bad to anyone else, he wasn't the robbing his friends and family type drug user. No history of violence, etc. Bottom line: He's a good guy who made some bad decisions.
We didn't talk for a long time until he was incarcerated. Now he calls me from prison quite often and he sounds like he has really made the best of his circumstances. He takes full responsibility for his past and is ready to make good and live the good life.
We were recently talking and I was asking him whether or not he was allowed to shoot guns when he got out. I knew he couldn't ever own one, but I didn't know if it was ok for him to still get to shoot my guns. He tells me that he was told by several of the authorities that he was never to be in the same house, car or even the general vicinity as a gun, no matter what the circumstances. I also work with a fellow who is a felon, he confirmed that he was repeatedly told all of this as well.
So as I see it, this has some serious implications for felons as well as law abiding citizens. So this means that he can never come to my house, be in my car, or really ever see me at all considering I'm always carrying.
How can this be? What if this was a brother? Can legal gun owners not have their family members in their home if they have been convicted of a felony? This just doesn't seem feasible. Honestly, it seems pretty unconstitutional to me. Does that not infringe upon the constitutional rights of law abiding gun owners?
Even if this is not a law, it seems pretty messed up to tell them this stuff. I would assume it has caused some serious issues in the past within families.
So here's the back story. I have a childhood friend who is currently incarcerated, but soon to be released. Growing up, he was just your average middle class kid, then he got into some bad stuff (ie drugs). He never did anything bad to anyone else, he wasn't the robbing his friends and family type drug user. No history of violence, etc. Bottom line: He's a good guy who made some bad decisions.
We didn't talk for a long time until he was incarcerated. Now he calls me from prison quite often and he sounds like he has really made the best of his circumstances. He takes full responsibility for his past and is ready to make good and live the good life.
We were recently talking and I was asking him whether or not he was allowed to shoot guns when he got out. I knew he couldn't ever own one, but I didn't know if it was ok for him to still get to shoot my guns. He tells me that he was told by several of the authorities that he was never to be in the same house, car or even the general vicinity as a gun, no matter what the circumstances. I also work with a fellow who is a felon, he confirmed that he was repeatedly told all of this as well.
So as I see it, this has some serious implications for felons as well as law abiding citizens. So this means that he can never come to my house, be in my car, or really ever see me at all considering I'm always carrying.
How can this be? What if this was a brother? Can legal gun owners not have their family members in their home if they have been convicted of a felony? This just doesn't seem feasible. Honestly, it seems pretty unconstitutional to me. Does that not infringe upon the constitutional rights of law abiding gun owners?
Even if this is not a law, it seems pretty messed up to tell them this stuff. I would assume it has caused some serious issues in the past within families.
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