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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:13 AM Jul 2018

'I can't be a felon' [View all]

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article214798695.html
Gun owners sue California over faulty weapon registration system

Harry Sharp spent most of the last weekend of June sitting in front of his computer, trying resolutely to register his four newly banned guns on the California Department of Justice’s website.

The deadline to register his bullet-button assault weapons was June 30, and California’s online reporting system kept crashing.

Sharp said he managed to register his Steyr AUG, a bullpup-style rifle, on June 29, a Friday, but was unable to register his other three firearms despite the hours he spent trying.

“I got very little sleep that weekend,” said Sharp, a 52-year-old stay-at-home father and hunter from Redding. “I worked late on Friday, and on Saturday morning, I had a couple pops of coffee and kept going at it the whole day.”


The US Constitution A1, S10: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

In short, no state shall pass a law criminalizing the actions of anyone after they've taken place. It's unfair and unlawful to legislatively make actions that were legal into convictable offense. This is equivalent to a state where it is legal to sell pot for recreational use making it illegal and arresting the operator of a recreational marijuana dispensary.
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'I can't be a felon' [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2018 OP
Well, I don't know about... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #1
I thought I made it clear by citing the ex post facto clause... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2018 #2
Whatever is going on.... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #3
"...even the ACLU would be up in arms" The ACLU won't defend the Second Amendment friendly_iconoclast Jul 2018 #4
The ACLU would definitely .... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #5
How is it ex post facto? Flaksie845 Jul 2018 #6
You are right.... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #7
It's like this discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2018 #8
I'm hoping scotus takes up some of these cases Alea Jul 2018 #9
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