A 19-year-old sailor stationed in
Annapolis, Md., in 1968 was arrested for getting into a fight with an
alleged member of a street gang.
Now, more than four decades later, the 64-year-old U.S. Navy veteran has been stripped of his right to own a gun.
Jefferson Wayne Schrader of Cleveland,
Ga., has been fighting a losing battle in the courts since 2008 to get
his name off the fed’s firearm ban list. In fact, just last month, a
federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a lower-court ruling
barring him from owning a firearm.
“It’s a depressing thing. A depressing
thing,” he told TheBlaze in a phone interview, “to have the government
treat you like that. It’s not, well, it’s not a good thing.”
The ban list is meant to prevent people
of questionable standing, including illegal aliens, drug addicts,
people dishonorably discharged from the U.S. military, and fugitives,
from buying or selling guns.
And although Schrader — a certified
expert with a handgun — served in Vietnam from Jan. 1, 1968, until being
honorably discharged in September 1970, the U.S. government believes he
is unfit to own a gun because of his teenage misdemeanor.
“Due to a conviction some forty years
ago for common-law misdemeanor assault and battery for which he served
no jail time, plaintiff Jefferson Wayne Schrader, now a
sixty-four-year-old veteran, is, by virtue of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1),
barred for life from ever possessing a firearm,” U.S. Circuit Judge David Tatel wrote in the court’s January opinion.
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The day is coming.... When this bull*hit is brought to an end. This long train of abuse against the law abiding citizens of this country, cannot be sustained by fed gov. The safety valve on this pressure cooker has been broken beyond repair...
ReplyDelete"There's a bad moon rising"
Indeed it is Sir and SHTF may have a whole new meaning.
DeleteThis comes from a court case US vs Sidney Coleman from about 10 - 13 years ago. A misdemeanor was manufactured into a felony so that a harsher sentence could be given to Sidney when the Maryland State Police found the case they started to apply it to everyone. I have a copy of the case thatm started this all.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who had a felony in 1960 and after so many years, he was "allowed" to have guns in this state, but in 1984 this was changed and he still can't own them legally. Unbelievable.
DeleteYou use to be able to petition to get your 2nd Amendment Rights back you can't now also if you get barred in one state from owning guns you are barred in all states. Looks like Governors need to get pardon's going again.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, it is a Natural Right, so screw them.
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