We Needed the Supreme Court to Tell us This?

By Ammoland

By Jeff Knox

Buckeye, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that when a person who owns firearms is convicted of a felony – which makes firearm possession illegal for them – they still retain the right to dispose of their firearms as they see fit, as long as they don’t do so in a way where they would have access or control over those firearms.

What is astounding about this decision is that it had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to be resolved.

Under what bizarre pretext could anyone suggest that a person’s property is no longer theirs, just because they were convicted of a crime, particularly when the crime had nothing whatsoever to do with the property in question?

As long as the property is not used in a crime, and is not the ill-gotten gains of a criminal enterprise, what possible claim could any government entity have on it? In certain circumstances I could see a judge ordering that personal property, including a gun collection, be sold to pay restitution to the person’s victims or to pay an associated fine, but not simply …read more

Source:: AmmoLand