The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has vacated a three-year prison sentence for a man convicted of possessing a firearm while using marijuana, determining that the government’s ban on gun ownership for drug users cannot be applied indiscriminately. [More]
What you do with the gun is all that should matter.
And when are gun owners going to learn to stop talking to police?
“What you do with the gun is all that should matter.” Good point.
A point I like even better: “What you do with the deadly weapon is all that should matter.” 2A advocates do our rights no favors when accepting the singling out of “guns” as such, as opposed to more generic “deadly weapons” when increasing penalties for aggravating factors in violent crimes.
Well, it’s a story involving a gun. If we want to start distilling things, what you do is all that should matter.