This Is How You Lose It All

This Is How You Lose It All – The Burning Platform

Guest Post by Karl Denninger

Those who refuse to think are doomed to lose.

What you may lose, in fact, is basically everything — your freedom and your accumulated wealth.

A federal government ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the 2nd Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals applies to the nine Western states that fall under the court’s jurisdiction, including California, Washington and Oregon.

I have warned for quite some time that for those states with medical marijuana laws possession of such a card is a per-se disqualifying act when it comes to firearms ownership.

The “Yellow Form” specifically asks if you are addicted to or a user of any illegal drug.  Since that is a federal form and the question pertains to the NICS (federal) system when it comes to firearms ownership it relates to federal law.  Marijuana is illegal under federal law irrespective of state laws to the contrary.

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