Feeling Disrespected
- Thread starter TurboSonicLT
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rdss
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I have an OUI while stationed in Maine with Tx license and I have zero restriction. I have not tried to purchase NFA weapons (a short barreled AR would be nice....) and have no need for Class III so I don't know about those. I think his has to do with multiple DUI's, the states they were commited in and maybe even more restrictions that we all may not know about.
J T
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Aldakoopa
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I believe the 2nd amendment is slowly under attack and our right to gun ownership will be slowly taken away... starting by restricting new gun owners because of seemingly inane or unrelated past incidents. :sadbanana:
Also, in NC, you can't shoot someone who breaks into your own home. My (innocent) uncle is in prison with a man who was (wrongfully) convicted for murder by killing a man who broke into his house. If someone broke into my house and I had a gun, the first thing I'd want to do is shoot them myself.
WranglerJoel
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He's not being denied because it's an OUI, he's being denied because in MA an OUI (even a first offense) can get you two and half years in jail. In MI ,for example, your first OUI can get you 90 days, your 2nd up to one year, so it would not affect your abillity to purchase firearms under federal guidelines.
TurboSonicLT
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^^^ Correct Sir... I can not own anything: Hand Gun, Shot Gun or AR.
J T
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It's still B.S. Driving while intoxicated has nothing to do with owning a gun.
J T
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Really? So every time I have a large knife in my hand and I'm drunk, that means I should never be able to drive a car when I'm sober?
Are people who have served time in jail for crimes where a gun was involved not able to get a driver's license?
Driving a car under the influence and owning a gun are completed unrelated.
Again, not being able to own a gun because you were convicted for operating a vehicle while intoxicated is about as absurd as someone being put on a sex offender list because they were urinating in public.
Using your logic, you might as well say, "you may not have children because you were convicted of drunk driving." You know, since you were irresponsible with a car, you may be irresponsible with children.
There is NO correlation between driving drunk and owning a gun. None.
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J T
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DUI/OUI/DWI should give the law just cause to think you can't responsibly own knives...or operate a vehicle (people eventually get their licenses back)...or raise children...or operate heavy machinery...or operate a chainsaw...or...(the list goes on).
Aldakoopa made a good point above. It's nothing more than a means to gun control.
And just because it's the "law," that doesn't mean it's the correct law. There are a lot of ridiculous laws on the books that defy logic and common sense, and this is one of them...IMO.
WranglerJoel
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The ATF does not have the resources to examine every law, in every state, to see if the conditions of conviction should exclude someone of their right to bear arms, so they use the length of sentence. That is how it has been for a long time. The denial has nothing to do with the nature of the crime or whether or not the committing of that crime makes you capable of handling a firearm.
gdideric
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sure, if you're the type that likes to pull out your knife and threaten people when you're drunk, then it makes sense that you wouldn't be allowed to even own a car...but in most places, that's quite nearly a death sentence as you can't get a job and put food on your table, and your kids would suffer for it, so begrudgingly you can own a car. The reverse with guns is NOT true.
same response.
you can screw up your own brats if you want, and maybe they won't go to harvard, but when you get behind the wheel drunk or whip out your pistol drunk, it's my kids that you kill. K I L L. Not emotionally scar, not fail to send to college. Kill.
And if you continue to be a drunken idiot, they WILL take your kids away, so yeah...if you are an irresponsible jerk, then you can't have kids...
Gun accidents are apparently largely confined to an unusually reckless subset of the population, with gun accidents disproportionately occurring to people with long records of motor vehicle accidents, traffic tickets, drunk driving arrests, and arrests for violent offenses. Accidents are most common among alcoholics and people with personality traits related to recklessness, impulsiveness, impatience, and emotional immaturity.
Guns and Violence: A Summary of the Field
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