Second Amendment
I thought the social distancing rule was 500 feet from a structure…
Pew, pew, pew. And not more than seven.
States Where Modern Sporting Rifles are Banned
Consitutional Carry States
In 27 states, Constitutional Carry is the law of state. Those states represent 142 million Americans, or roughly 43% of the nations population.
Marijuana or a Gun? – The New York Times
For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun.
In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out of the office, threatening vengeance.
At a nearby gun store, she settled on a .22 caliber pistol that “felt good in my hand.” Then came the problem. A question on the firearms transaction form she was required to complete asked whether she was an “unlawful user” of marijuana or any other drug categorized by the federal government as a controlled substance.
Ms. Cooper is registered in Florida’s medical marijuana program and relies on the drug to ease her chronic knee pain and sleeplessness. She answered the query accordingly, and was told that as long as she held a marijuana card, buying a gun was not possible.
New York ammunition background check law
Gun retailers will now be going through New York State Police instead of the National Instant Criminal background check system, or NICS. The state will also begin requiring checks not just for firearms but ammunition purchases and charging fees of $9 and $2.50 respectively each time.