What does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
It appears that Mel Gibson is a prohibited person.
If you read §922(g) closely, you will find that prohibited person includes people who have not been convicted of a felony nor any of the things we might consider reason to prohibit.
It gets better, under Rahimi, a person can only be prohibited temporarily and when found to be violent.
This means that many of the cases challenging the §922(g) sections are likely to win on the merits. The Range case for example. A non-violent felon. He pleaded guilty to fraud. He did not claim income from his lawn care side hustle when he was asking for financial help.
He served no time. It has been many years since Range pleaded guilty to this crime.
Oh, it wasn’t a felony when he pleaded guilty.
Over time, crimes that were not “felonies” under §922 have become felonies. I.e., if you can be jailed for the crime for more than a year, then it is a felony under §922, even if you serve no time.
Mel Gibson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault on his ex-girlfriend. He paid a $500 fine and put it behind him.
Turns out that this misdemeanor assault actually triggers §922(g) and he is now a prohibited person.
He has been attempting to get his Second Amendment protected rights back.
Pam Bondi?
A lawyer at the DoJ was fired. She ran to the New York Times to whimper about how unfair it was. About how she was the victim of the Evil Trump administration. She was doing the right thing.
What was she claiming to be the “right thing”? She claimed that disobeying her superiors was the right thing. In particular, she “couldn’t sign off” on a DoJ’s working group working to get gun rights restored to The People.
Yep. She mentioned that she was told to work to restore Mel Gibson’s rights and refused. She seems to feel that nobody should have gun rights, and that keeping as many people from having the right to keep and bear arms is the “right thing” to do.
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making “soft” crimes a felony is a way of taking your Freedom away. when you have a justice system peopled with control freaks you have no “system”
there is no justice, there is just us..
Just because you are doing the “right” thing does not mean there are no consequences. Adults know that. Leftists that want everyone in the world to live exactly as they want them to live, do not.
This is a perfect example of why us 2A supporters passionately object to additional laws.
There’s always the threat of weaponizing them.
I probably don’t know much of the history, but my understanding of the “prohibited person” rule always has been that it applies if you’re convicted of a crime that carries a maximum penalty over 1 year in prison — whether you get a penalty that high, or not.