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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........
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To: The Street who wrote (505)4/4/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: PatiBob  Read Replies (1) of 10167
 
Hey babe, we do love our fire arms in Texas.

In what could prove to be an extremely important precedent-
setting decision, a United States District Court for the Northern
District of Texas recently dismissed an indictment against a
defendant based on the opinion that the federal law he was
accused of violating represented an unconstitutional exercise of
congressional power that violated rights protected under the
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The law, which was
buried within the massive 1994 Clinton Crime Bill, prohibits the
possession of a firearm by anyone with a court restraining order.
The defendant's wife had petitioned for a temporary restraining
order against the defendant prohibiting him from making
threatening communications or actual attacks on his wife during
the divorce proceedings. Even though no evidence was presented
that the defendant posed any threat to his wife or other members
of his family, the restraining order was granted, and under the
obscure federal law, he could no longer lawfully own firearms.
Unfortunately, no one ever told him about this law, and when
federal authorities found he possessed firearms, he was indicted.

Ya gotta wonder how these fellows that make these idiotic laws live with their heads buried so far up their asses.

PB
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