Gil Bang
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Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
My local Lowe's cleared out the patio section and put up the Halloween shit weeks ago. Who the fuck is buying a 10 foot tall electric skeleton?
- Trump’s America
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Do you smoke weed? If so, Trump Admin says "no guns for you"
nobody will take that bet
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Do you smoke weed? If so, Trump Admin says "no guns for you"
If more gun owners smoked weed, we'd have fewer shootings.
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Do you smoke weed? If so, Trump Admin says "no guns for you"
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s aggressive defense of gun rights has at least one exception. The government’s lawyers want the Supreme Court to make clear that regular pot smokers – and other drug users − shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms. An appeals court has said a federal law making it a crime for drug users to have a gun can’t be used against someone based solely on their past drug use. Limiting the law to blocking the use of guns while a person is high effectively guts the statute that reduces gun violence, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court. They’re asking the justices to overturn the appeals court’s decision. Trump's Justice Department has sided with gun owners in other cases The department’s defense of the law is particularly notable as the Trump administration has sided with gun rights advocates in other cases – including one in which they declined to appeal a lower court's ruling against a federal law setting 21 as the minimum age to own a handgun. But on the issue of drug use, the government is appealing four cases to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to focus on one involving a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan who was charged with unlawfully owning a Glock pistol because he regularly smoked marijuana. The FBI had been monitoring Ali Danial Hemani because of his alleged connection to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which the government has designated a global terrorist group, according to filings. The government also alleges Hemani used and sold promethazine, an antihistamine used to treat allergies and motion sickness that can boost an opioid high, and used cocaine, although he was prosecuted based on his marijuana use. Hemani’s attorneys said the government is trying to “inflame and disparage” Hemani’s character and the only facts that matter are that he was not high when the FBI found the Glock 19 in his Texas home. Hemani was charged with violating the federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance.” Appeals court ruled past drug use not enough to stop gun ownership The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the law can’t be applied to Hemani under the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision that gun prohibitions must be grounded in history that is "consistent with our tradition of gun regulation." While history and tradition support “some limits on a presently intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon,” the appeals court said, “they do not support disarming a sober person based solely on past substance usage.” The Justice Department said the appeals court got it wrong. Laws that existed at the time the country was founded restricted the rights of habitual drinkers, even when they were sober, they argued. “And for about as long as legislatures have regulated drugs, they have prohibited the possession of arms by drug users and addicts – not just by persons under the influence of drugs,” they wrote. Law used in hundreds of prosecutions, including Hunter Biden's Since the federal government created its background-check system for firearms in 1998, the federal restriction on drug users has stopped more gun sales than any requirement other than the ban on felons and fugitives owning weapons, according to the filing. And it’s used in hundreds of prosecutions each year, they said. (Hunter Biden, who was later pardoned by his father during President Joe Biden’s final weeks in office, was convicted in 2024 of violating the law by purchasing a gun despite having a known drug addiction.) Hunter Biden trial recap Joe Biden's son guilty on all charges in historic gun case Hemani’s lawyers argue that the government’s interpretation of the law makes no sense when an estimated 19% of Americans have used marijuana and about 32% own a firearm. That means millions of Americans are violating the law that could put them behind bars for up to 15 years, they said in a filing. The appeals court, Hemani’s lawyers said, correctly applied the Supreme Court’s past decisions and “common sense” to rule that “history and tradition only supports a ban on carrying firearms while intoxicated.” In addition to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, two other appeals courts have issued rulings that restrict use of the federal ban: both courts ruled there should be individualized assessments of defendants' drug use to determine if their rights could be restricted. Trump administration touts program to restore gun rights The Justice Department argues that “marginal” cases are better addressed on a case-by-case basis, through a federal program the Trump administration restarted that lets individuals petition to have their gun rights restored. The administration’s championship of that program makes it less surprising that the Justice Department is vigorously defending the ban on drug users having guns, said Andrew Willinger, executive director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, a research center. In addition, the administration has shown a broad desire to crack down on illegal drug use. “In some sense, when those two areas are colliding – gun rights and anti-drug policies – it looks like anti-drug policies are going to win out,” he said. More: Supreme Court rules Mexico can't sue US gunmakers over cartel violence Willinger said there’s a relatively strong chance the Supreme Court will get involved, which the justices tend to do when a lower court strikes down or restricts the application of a federal criminal law – especially if the government asks them to intervene. But the high court could also wait to see how other appeals courts handle similar cases and how well the Justice Department’s program for restoring gun rights addresses these concerns, he said. The court could announce whether it will take up the issue this fall.
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CFB Week Zero Preview: Tosaíonn Séasúr Peile na gColáistí 2025 le Farmageddon
San Diego State's new stadium (Snapdragon) cost $310 million and it holds 35,000. Costs have gone up significantly in the last few years.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- Trump’s America
- Put in the big hole and gouge on it (truck driver check in)
I was about to write some snippy shit about how you get mail in TX, but you live in your sleeper. That made me curious. Do you get a room when you are parked for a few days, or are you indeed a sleeper dweller?- Trump’s America
in those 3 states, there are 43 cities with crime higher than DC.- All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bill Walton’s house. For those of you not familiar with San Diego, that is a fucking primo location. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1010-Myrtle-Way-San-Diego-CA-92103/16971601_zpid/- The Democratic Party
it's time for Pritzker, AOC, etc to pile the fuck on!- The Democratic Party
oh shit you need to click on it- Off Grid Alaska
A doctor is making his morning rounds. He visits one of his patients, and picks up his chart to make some notes. He reaches in his shirt pocket, and pulls out a thermometer. Doc says to himself "great...now some asshole's got my pen"- Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Good thing you specified. I assumed you were talking about Julian Dorio (the periodontist).- The Guitar Pron Thread
or, you can fly with a fender that will arrive in one piece. OK, two pieces, technically, but they will still be bolted together.- Buncha fucking amateurs jamming "Funk #49"
- Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
slight derail: do scholarship limits even matter in the age of NIL? "Sorry BillyBob, we can't give you a schollie, so you will need to walk-on and pay your own way. BTW, here's a big NIL check". Am I wrong?- The Democratic Party
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Gavin throwing haymakers- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Trump is right. If Ukraine surrenders, this war is over.- RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15000917/Cheryl-Hines-Larry-David-new-HBO-barack-michelle-obama.html looks like Mrs. Kennedy is being left out of the new Larry David show, produced by the Obamas.- Trump’s America
Right about now, Trump is screaming at the Joint Chiefs, demanding to know why he could see these "invisible" aircraft- 2025 MLB thread
- 2025 MLB thread
Seriously, fuck that fucking cocksucker. If anybody here knows him, please print out this post and deliver it to him. I'm happy to fight the fucking piece of shit (I'd just put out a pile of dope like Wile E. Coyote did for the roadrunner (except he used birdseed). He's the lowest of the low. I'd run Josh Hamilton over with my fucking truck to get Anthony Rendon's autograph.
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