A victory for a 12-year old common sense amendment to the Brady Law over the rights of those guilty of misdemeanor domestic violence
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The United States Supreme Court today rejected arguments by the gun lobby and convicted wife beater Randy Edward Hayes that federal law allowed Hayes to possess firearms, upholding the broad federal ban on gun possession by convicted misdemeanor domestic violence abusers. The Court cited arguments made by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence about the risks posed by firearms in the hands of domestic abusers.
The 7-2 ruling in United States v. Hayes was a blow to gun lobby groups that had urged the Court to severely narrow the federal Lautenberg Amendment that bars gun possession by abusers convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence. The Court reversed an earlier ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that, if upheld, would have allowed convicted abusers in at least 25 states to rearm themselves with firearms....
Congress enacted the Lautenberg Amendment in 1996 to prohibit abusers convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes from possessing firearms. In April 2007, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a wife beater's conviction for illegal gun possession by narrowly interpreting the Lautenberg Amendment as only barring gun possession by abusers convicted of laws specifically barring domestic violence, rather than all persons convicted of domestic violence under general assault and battery laws.
Supreme Court Upholds Reasonable Restrictions on Guns for Domestic Abusers
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Why should restrictions on possessing a firearm be limited to convicted felons or only those convicted under specific misdemeanor domestic violence laws?
Commit misdemeanor domestic violence under any general assault and battery law....lose the "right" to possess a firearm.
Works for me!
And I cant believe I started another gun thread. WTF am I thinking.
