So now you can become a prohibited person if the crime is redefined as carrying a penalty greater than two years AFTER you are convicted? Like Domestic Violence? Say it isn’t so.
All the government has to do is redefine all crimes as having a potential penalty greater than two years, and we all become prohibited, and it complies with Heller.
Oh, I think this one will make it to SCOTUS. The precedent was set when the Demacommies pushed the Lautenberg Amendment through the Congress a few years back. Turns out, the original bill would have disarmed about 20% of the LEO’s in the country due to their misdemeanor convictions. So, Congress granted them an “exemption” to the Law, thus setting up a “Protected Class”, in violation of the “Equal Justice” section of the Constitution.
Oh, and the Federal Judge just ruled that the Maryland Statute is a “Bill of Attainder” (wherein one can be punished for old crimes under new laws, even though one has discharged the sentence of the old criminal activity), yet he can be prosecuted for violation of that “Bill of Attainder” in spite of it being a complete violation of Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution.
Thus, this Federal Judge has decided that the Constitution doesn’t apply at all in this case, even though it’s written in Black and White that the Judge’s Ruling is a Violation of Article 1, Section 9.
January 5th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
So now you can become a prohibited person if the crime is redefined as carrying a penalty greater than two years AFTER you are convicted? Like Domestic Violence? Say it isn’t so.
All the government has to do is redefine all crimes as having a potential penalty greater than two years, and we all become prohibited, and it complies with Heller.
January 5th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
This floored me:
A misdemeanor punishable with up to 10 years of prison time!? There are felonies that can’t get you even half of that!
January 5th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Oh, I think this one will make it to SCOTUS. The precedent was set when the Demacommies pushed the Lautenberg Amendment through the Congress a few years back. Turns out, the original bill would have disarmed about 20% of the LEO’s in the country due to their misdemeanor convictions. So, Congress granted them an “exemption” to the Law, thus setting up a “Protected Class”, in violation of the “Equal Justice” section of the Constitution.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Oh, and the Federal Judge just ruled that the Maryland Statute is a “Bill of Attainder” (wherein one can be punished for old crimes under new laws, even though one has discharged the sentence of the old criminal activity), yet he can be prosecuted for violation of that “Bill of Attainder” in spite of it being a complete violation of Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution.
Thus, this Federal Judge has decided that the Constitution doesn’t apply at all in this case, even though it’s written in Black and White that the Judge’s Ruling is a Violation of Article 1, Section 9.
I call for Impeachment of the Judge.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
The term ‘misdemeanor’ is bogus. They are doing that so they can both denigh your gun rights AND allow felons to vote.
See it’s a win-win for Democrats.