{"id":85636,"date":"2023-08-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85636"},"modified":"2023-07-31T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T02:50:32","slug":"question-for-the-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85636","title":{"rendered":"Question For The Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>ATF Form 4473 question 21.g reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;g. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?<br \/>Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized<br \/>for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yes No&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your neighbor routinely sees you setting on your deck smoking weed and you come home one day with a terrifying AR-15 does the inference that you lied on your Form 4473 justify them invoking one of Minnesota&#8217;s <strong><em>Red Flag <\/em><\/strong>laws to have the authorities take away all your guns?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I am no lawyer \u2013 I will await input from one of them \u2013 but I suspect \u201cIt depends on how much your county attorney hates law abiding gun owners\u201d is at least part of any correct answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: ATF Form 4473 question 21.g reads: &#8220;g. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalizedfor medicinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85637,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85636\/revisions\/85637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}