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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: What did you do today
« Last post by Clydesdale4x4 on July 26, 2024, 09:15:04 PM »I watched the whole thing (for my sins) and I agree with you, Zulch.
That jitterbug on the vid made way too much about cap & balls not being firearms. He did try to clarify a little, but how many times did we hear “not a firearm, not a firearm”? True, for sales, transfers and background checks. But for every other aspect of criminal liability - they’re definitely firearms. Felons who are not permitted to possess firearms can’t have a C&B because (wait for it) … it’s a firearm. Can’t carry one or park it in your vehicle without a permit because it’s a firearm. If you brandish one in a “rude, angry or threatening manner”, it’s a firearm. If one robs the local hadji-mart using one, it gets charged as a robbery with a firearm enhancement. I’ve done that,
(not the robbery but adding the enhancement as another count in the complaint) and it’s good for another eight or ten years. If DeKiefrie is a previously convicted felon, that’s count three and so on. The biggest misconception in our sport is that because, for a couple of narrow purposes, cap and ball is not a firearm - it’s not a firearm generally. Try walking one into a courthouse.
And when I became a felon in 1993 in the great state of Idaho for... (wait for it, Nah, not screwing children, nope, no armed robbery? Heroin? Ninja please...) Driving w/o Privileges, yup sober as a judge all three times, (3!!!!!) just suspended, and on my way to work, all but the last, (in the city they say ya get pulled over for DWB, Driving While Black, here? It's DWP, Driving While Poor- which is why I maintained my suspension for so long, food before SR-22, Rent before SR-22, etc.) when I was on my way back from the drug store with medicine for my sick infant...
I was allowed per the rules of my probation to have BlackPowder firearms and a crossbow.
I haven't paid attention, rights are restored, Hell, the crime is so old it's not even digitized, it's microfiche... but.
When did the laws change?