Gun rights and out of state misdemeanors

3_47Inf

March 30, 2008 21:04

We were talking at the range over the weekend, and we got into a hefty discussion about misdemeanors and gun rights. One guy swears that if you get a misdemeanor in one state that prevents you from owning a gun in that state, it applies to all states. I doubted that a state punishment would carry over to other states.

Can anyone help shed some light on this? This is the first I have ever heard of this.

Thanks.

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  Aaron.Combs1

  March 31, 2008 00:09

  to my knowledge it does not. every state is able to make its own laws, and a law if violated in one state, then i do not believe that it will hold much merrit in another. HOWEVER there are some misdemeanors that can prevent you from owning a weapon. i will not go though them all, but a look at your states laws and statues will be able to tell you want you need to know.

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  Permanently deleted user

  March 31, 2008 12:54

  State laws only apply to the states that make them.
  
  One or more States may have identical laws/ simular laws.
  
  However read the 4473 on the gun application. SOME misdemeanors will bar you from owning weapons, such as "Domestic violence".
  
  Anything inwhich you can be imprisoned a year or more, don't fill out a 4473, as you MAY be commiting a felony.

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  3_47Inf

  March 31, 2008 16:34

  This is what I thought too and thus my reason for asking. I am not a lawyer so I wanted to ask in a respectable place for the lawyer types to teach me something here.

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