Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
CosmicCowboy
We get it. You are anti-gun.
No.
I am pro gun, and I disagree with most our laws being necessary. I simply do my best to separate my opinion from law. They rarely agree.
Do I think he should have been prosecuted? No, but because I believe the government has no right here. However, they do.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Blake
That doesn't help any.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Blake
why is it bullshit to assess the need for such reform?
what is the proposed reform?
You trust this congress to reform gun legislation?
Get real.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
That doesn't help any.
It's pretty clear the ruling was a conviction on the charge of selling a gun to an illegal alien.
I'm not sure why you haven't figured that out.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
You trust this congress to reform gun legislation?
Get real.
I don't trust you to comprehend my questions.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Blake
It's pretty clear the ruling was a conviction on the charge of selling a gun to an illegal alien.
I'm not sure why you haven't figured that out.
I know that. However, if the ruling only cites the 18 USC 922(d)(1)(a), then it will be easily overturned. There has to be more law involved, else it is a bogus conviction.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
CosmicCowboy
That in a Federal Court, a Federal Prosecutor would advocate racial profiling against hispanics by a white guy, and specifically stated the defendant should have known they were wetbacks because they 1) Were hispanic 2) spoke spanish (and english) and 3) wore cowboy clothes.
WTF?
The UNIFORMED POLICEMAN AT THE DOOR didn't even have the right to ask them if they were illegal aliens.
sounds like a hell of a trial attorney, IMO.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
I know that. However, if the ruling only cites the 18 USC 922(d)(1)(a), then it will be easily overturned. There has to be more law involved, else it is a bogus conviction.
yes, the agents, prosecutor, judge and jury were all out to get Copeland who himself had a sorry lawyer.
Shit happens, even to the innocent.
Re: Feds send Bastrop man to jail for selling gun to illegal alien
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
if the ruling only cites the 18 USC 922(d)(1)(a), then it will be easily overturned.
no, it won't.
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There has to be more law involved, else it is a bogus conviction.
no, it isn't.
