Posted August 16, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

It’s against federal law for anyone who uses illicit drugs to own or possess a firearm. While this is a topic of much discussion, particularly with regard to medical marijuana and gun ownership.

Regardless of that discussion, it’s still illegal. It’s a gun control law that says they can’t purchase firearms.

Once again, it seems gun control failed.

The Dayton, Ohio, mass murderer who fatally shot nine people and wounded 27 others had cocaine and other drugs in his system at the time of the bloodbath, a coroner said Thursday.

The doctor added that Xanax and alcohol were also discovered in [the killer’s] body.

Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said that authorities discovered a bag of coke on the 24-year-old killer’s body after police officers shot him dead.

The coroner also said the killer was shot at least 24 times.

Yet the important part is that he had drugs in his system. He was jacked up on all kinds of things when he carried out that shooting, but all of those things legally barred him from having a firearm in the first place.

If we’re going to talk about how “assault weapons” should be banned and how we need red flag laws and universal …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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