12-21-2018, 09:59 AM
(12-21-2018, 09:44 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-21-2018, 09:30 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Getting back to the original gun policy reasons for this thread, CNN has another place where something could be done without changing the Constitution. Liars on forms that people have to fill out to buy a legal weapon are generally not prosecuted, but 20% of them go on to commit gun crimes. Naturally, CNN focused on a mass shooter in their report.
It will not solve the problem entirely. One is still trying a prohibition after all. Still, this is one more place where the ball on prohibition of criminals and the insane is being dropped.
CNN article: Gun form liars may go on to commit gun crimes, internal ATF research suggests
...and that will be a federal offense. Lying about mental health or marital distress on a gun form will be cause for arrest and imprisonment -- and confiscation of firearms.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. The federal prosecutors have recently thought they have better things to do than prosecute paperwork crimes, not to mention better use of jail cells. Or do people end up on probation, making it less likely for them to hold regular work, thus being 'forced' into gun crime? It is messier than it looks at first glance.
I for one wonder what the statute of limitations on the form crime would run?
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