I'm not either but I've committed a fuck ton of felonies over the decades I was never caught doing.  Just like you.  Will probably commit more today.

In Virginia:

Unless the felon in question has had his civil rights restored by the Governor AND petitioned the circuit court to restore the right to possess a firearm
18.2-308.2 forbids a convicted felon from possessing a firearm.....This includes muzzleloaders.

Under Virginia law, a firearm is any device designed and intended to hurl a projectile by action of an explosion of combustible material (ie gunpowder).

Bows/airguns are GTG.

Even flare guns are considered a firearm as it fits within the above definition of a firearm.

From what I understand the definition of a firearm changed years ago because peeps were discharging MLers and such within various town/city limits where discharging a firearm is prohibited.

Yep, I agree.

You do realize that non violent felons can petition to get their rights back and in most states the prosecutor isn't even notified ? At the end of the day he's still a felon because he made a choice to break the law.

GD potheads. If this guy had been say, chopping stolen cars instead they never would have noticed the show at all.

I'll toast to that!  

So pure.

Almost as entertaining as the dude with the Marshall Tucker Band logo bitchin' about laws & pot.

"Wait, what, they smoke?"

LMAO

Hope is the wrong word.

I fully expect to get a ticket if I get pulled over and was exceeding the posted speed limit.

I fully expect that gun laws will be enforced to the full extent and maximum penalty prescribed by law. Why the fuck else would I have spent thousands of dollars on tax stamps?

You cannot hope to fix or repeal a law that is not enforced or enforced capriciously.

Exactly. So tired of the blame everyone else bitch ass excuses....

This!  One question thoguh, is "write a functional quadriplegic felon" mean he arrested the scumbag or he just wrote some kind of weird, ticket for the felony?

So, you have no empathy or concern for otherwise law-abiding citizens who are prosecuted under SAFE act?

You are not moved to anger when someone is convicted of an NFA violation because their barrel was deemed to be 1" too short?

Here you have an obviously disabled man who probably uses weed to avoid becoming a statistic in the national opioid crisis (thanks to his doctors, the pharmaceutical cartel, etc) and you want to see him crucified under the full weight of law. Some here are even saying they wished he had been physically harmed in the arrest.

This is why we don't have freedom in the truest sense. CITIZENS do not WANT that freedom. They want to cuckold the rape of liberty for other citizens who exercise human civil rights that THEY do not personally approve of.

You guys would probably have more empathy for him if he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol. Sad, pathetic.

When I go over to NY, I don't bring my pistol. If I did, I'd expect to get tenderly loved and wouldn't whine and cry if I did.

Violate the law and there are consequences. Who would have thought?

Got it, you support enforcement of the SAFE act because it's "da law."

Show me in the Constitution where your rights go away because you went to jail and served your punishment. I'll be waiting patiently.

Self-inflicted problem.

Yep. He should have been a good serf, taken the opiate painkillers that his doctors prescribed and risked progressing to a heroin junkie thanks to neurochemical tolerance and addiction.

Makes perfect sense. Now I understand why it's so easy for the pharmaceutical cartels and their loyal slaves to push for a Kratom ban.

They don't ask that on any hunting license applications out here.

They did pass a new law two years ago allowing felons to bow hunt, but they still don't ask about criminal record to obtain a hunting license.

If someone wants a pistol without having to register, they can move right over here to VT.

This thread is so fucked up I can't even get past page 1.  

My empathy is irrelevant.

As for the NFA, I've been working hard to try and support change. I've supported legal challenges to the NFA. I've supported lobbying to change the NFA. It isn't anger that matters, it is action.

"Here you have an obviously disabled man who probably uses weed to avoid becoming a statistic in the national opioid crisis (thanks to his doctors, the pharmaceutical cartel, etc) and you want to see him crucified under the full weight of law." - What the fuck are you on? The guy was arrested and convicted 30 some years ago for GROWING pot. Your concern peddling is misplaced.

As for the rest of your post, where you accuse the citizens of the United States, myself and the others here included, of wanting to "cuckold the rape of liberty" - my only response is that you come off like a retarded millennial or a pot head. Or did you "get both"?

Once again, he was convicted of running a grow operation, not of being a user.

So the question here is should he have been a GOOD PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER and stuck to what was legal, or was he a hero for growing something that was not legal for medicinal or recreational purposes at the time?

In fact, you've brought up heroin in a previous post.... would you feel so kind toward the guy if he were convicted of manufacturing heroin or opiates?

Saw that episode last night. Seemed a little harsh for them to bust him but he was shooting too close to houses.

lol, some of ya'll really seem to love the Gun Control Act.

With a little google, I did find where you have to certify on the paper copy, for the complementary Maine hunting license you need to certify you are either not a felon or a felon with a permit to possess a firearm. Can't find it, but I bet its the same for the paper copy of the license....

Did you pay your sales tax on all of your amazon orders last year?

Some of us do. I did.

Then again, I only order sold and shipped by Amazon.com or Amazon Warehouse Deals, and both of those legal entities collect sales tax in Tennessee.

Amazon also sends out nice forms for those that need help in calculating their use tax.

Alright, hero-

So far we've established that you support enforcement of the NFA/SAFE act/etc. Those are laws that should not exist- they should be completely invalidated by the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States. You do not seem to believe that leniency or consideration for human dignity should be showed under ANY circumstance when it comes to enforcement- because "law" is "law." Amiright? When I was a law enforcement officer, we had a thing called "officer discretion." Under NO circumstances, would I have EVER arrested any otherwise law abiding citizen for violation of arbitrary gun laws. I hold that it was not the person who violated laws under those circumstances- but that it was the unconstitutional law that violated the person. That was a decision that I made before I was sworn in, and a decision that I remained faithful to during my time as a public servant. I had MANY opportunities to pursue charges against NFA violators and enforce other petty, ridiculous firearm-related laws. I didn't. Hell- some of the people that I encountered and showed discretion towards may even be members on this site today, for all I know. That was a long time ago. By your definition of moral behavior, I was "wrong" for showing that leniency.

Anyone who cheers on the aggressive, robotic and callous enforcement of Marijuana laws under circumstances such as we are discussion, IS MOST DEFINITELY cuckolding the rape of civil liberty. Anyone who supports the removal of a human being's right to keep and bear arms under these circumstances...IS MOST DEFINITELY cuckolding the rape of civil liberty. For Christ's sake- the guy was busted 30 years ago for growing a plant that is native to North America- a plant that has been grown here since the Colonies first arrived. It is a person's RIGHT to keep and bear arms. By the same token, it is a person's right- a person's God-given right to smoke that fucking plant instead of allowing the pharmaceutical industry to pump them full of the deadly, extremely addictive and life-destroying drugs that many today peddle. Have you ever withdrawn from a legally prescribed opiate or benzodiazepine? I have. The stuff is fucking poison.

And thanks for attacking me instead of my argument. Thanks for suggesting that I am an illegal/illicit drug user for simply voicing an opinion on the subject.

May your chains rest lightly.

Spot on, but some in GD think the ganja is harmless and that we have a right to grow it and smoke it as they equate it with freedom.

What's more disturbing is the people who would be happy to see my son's life thrown away, cheer on the removal of his right to keep and bear arms if he should- God forbid- get caught with weed one day when he grows up.

That's pretty hard to wrap my mind around- but humans in general are pretty evil things who enjoy the suffering of others. The "freedom" that they want is limited to their own interest and preference- everyone else can get fucked, right?

Very well written apologist response right here, dude. So many words and such logic to back them.

This may have already been said, but how many of you yapping in here about a muzzleloader not being a firearm are willing to stand 20 feet in front of one when the trigger is pulled?

Here's one you can understand better. I don't need paragraph's of blabbering hyperbole to get my point across.

Actually, I don't. Are you suggesting (like the other guy) that I am breaking the law?

Clarify.

That is in response to the thread subject but yes I am thinking you break the law as well. Hell we probably all break it every day in one way or another.

Accusing those who support legalization of being "pot heads" is a tired old argument. Obviously, if someone defends an accused witch...they must be a witch too!

I think we're pretty sure you're a pothead...

Stop breaking the fucking law.

So you were a law enforcement officer that doesn't believe in laws or their enforcement?



So did they remove you from the force for cause, or did you just fly under the radar long enough to collect a pension for a job you obviously disagreed with deeply?

Are you now, or have you ever been, a user of the plant that is "a person's God-given right to smoke"?

Lol riiight.

Imagine that. I previously worked in law enforcement, the fire service, and afterwards in outreach programs for kids who dropped out of school. As of now, I'm legally disabled- brain and body are beyond fucked from a traumatic injury. I still manage to work full time at a desk job and support my family so that I'm not a burden on society or on them. I speak from personal experience in telling you that the majority of narcotics that doctors prescribe for people in my situation (and worse) are pure fucking evil. Not only that: From a plethora of fucked up situations that I've witnessed in my previous line of employment, I'm telling you that pot is NOTHING compared to the legally prescribed medicines that are causing our opioid/opiate crisis. Those drugs lead many, many people every year in to addiction to even more harmful substances. And yet, you guys are going to accuse me of being a "pothead" and suggest that I should "stop breaking the law," simply because in my opinion Marijuna should be legal? Because I'm telling you that otherwise law abiding people who use it should be able to keep their rights?

Please. Y'all need to grow some thicker skin or something- that's sad.

When did I say that I didn't believe in laws or their enforcement?

What reason do you have to believe that I was "removed" from the force?

Again with the ad hominem fallacies. Again with the personal attacks and character assassination attempts.

You guys are beyond triggered.

I like the cut of your jib.

You do your time, you should get your rights as a citizen back.

And keep the child molesters locked up till they die.

As for being angry about game wardens, I hate poachers, I hate folks who trespassed on my family land to hunt.

I always liked the state fish cops.

I have a seething internal anger for poachers, trespassers, and Bureau of Land Management agents from my youth that will never go away.

Fish cops? You follow the rules, you won't have a problem with them.

Me too I might stop wearing my soft body armor to Wal-Mart now!

THIS, I can agree with.

Not every felon is a bad person.  Consider that you were a healthy 18 year old male in California with a girlfriend that is 17.  You are sexually active and loving it.  Opps, pops found out you are banging his daughter and files statutory rape charges against.  The age of consent in CA is 18.  You go to court and get convicted.  This is a very real possibility in the fucktard state of CA.  Does this newly minted "felon" pose a risk to society by owning a firearm?

Excellent point. People who support hard-line removal of civil rights from ALL felons are one of three things:

(1) Uneducated as to how fucking STUPID easy that liberals have made it for a PATRIOT to become a "felon"

(2) Supportive of using unconstitutional laws as a "backdoor" to reduce the overall number of gun owners in the US

(3) Completely lacking the depth of comprehension that is needed to understand the implications of their supported position, apathetic

Now, when it comes to child molesters, child abusers, serial rapists, (true, cold-blooded unjustifiable) murderers, cartel operatives, etc- they need to stay in prison forever. They have no business ever being free.

Saw the same show. Let's see, guy grows weed in the 80s, probably not for personal use, grabs a felony conviction and a sentence of unknown term (let's say 5 years probation for fun). He's off paper for 20 years but never petitions for restoration of rights.

In Maine, there is a box you check saying you're not a Felon, he checked that box. As far as I know, hunting from the road is illegal in every state, he pulled to the shoulder and shot turkey from his van. The turkey was on private property that was neither his nor did he has permission to hunt.

As a hunter, that's 3 strikes. I was upset the warden let him go with a couple tickets. He should have been locked up - poaching, felon with firearm, deadly conduct (shooting too close to homes).

If all four of his limbs don't work, then there is no way he can physically accept or reject the firearm, Your Honor.