Washington State Supreme Court Overturns Ruling On Felon Pistol License

By Tom Knighton

There’s a reason why have a separate justice system for juveniles. Mostly it’s because kids don’t have all the same tools that adults are supposed to have, so they colossally dumb things for colossally dumb reasons, but rarely out of any malicious intent. We have to punish them, of course, because it’s vital they learn there are ramifications to their actions. However, in many cases, those juvenile offenders take the hit, shape up, and we never have to worry about them again.

Yet in at least one case, the then juvenile offender will still have to be punished for the remainder of his life, according to the Washington State Supreme Court.

The Washington State Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order that would have allowed a man convicted of juvenile felonies to get a concealed pistol license.

The court ruled Thursday that a federal prohibition still applies to his juvenile crimes, even though they were later ordered sealed.

The man, Jerry Barr, was convicted of crimes including a pair of Class A felonies in 1992, when he was a minor. In 2016, Barr successfully petitioned to have those records sealed, and then had his gun rights restored in a separate …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms