return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 days agoSupreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own gunsabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days ago . . . if they can show that the person lied. That’s the hard part, and the reason why it doesn’t get enforced.
minus-squarebambam@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoIts not difficult to prove if you have a medicinal cannabis card. Not at all. All your purchases are prescribed and tracked.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoWere you using it when you bought the gun? How long ago did you imbibe before then? What even is the time limit? Does your use count as addiction? Is a federal prosecutor going to bother even pursuing those questions if they have to prove it in front of a judge and jury? There’s so many ways a defense attorney could pick the case apart. They’re generally not going to prosecute this as the primary charge.
That’s the hard part, and the reason why it doesn’t get enforced.
Its not difficult to prove if you have a medicinal cannabis card. Not at all. All your purchases are prescribed and tracked.
Were you using it when you bought the gun? How long ago did you imbibe before then? What even is the time limit? Does your use count as addiction?
Is a federal prosecutor going to bother even pursuing those questions if they have to prove it in front of a judge and jury?
There’s so many ways a defense attorney could pick the case apart. They’re generally not going to prosecute this as the primary charge.