Scary that you can lose your Constitutional rights due to a misdemeanor.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...stic-violence-abuse-clarence-thomas/86353402/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...stic-violence-abuse-clarence-thomas/86353402/
Supreme Court rules domestic abusers can lose gun ownership rights
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Gun ownership rights can be denied to people who commit reckless acts of domestic violence, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that brought a blistering dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas.
The 6-2 ruling, written by Justice Elena Kagan and endorsed by conservative as well as liberal justices, upheld the sentences imposed on two Maine men who had argued their misdemeanor convictions for domestic abuse should not trigger a federal gun control statute. Thomas and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
The federal law was intended to deny guns to people convicted of violent acts against family members, based in part on research showing they are more likely to use guns domestically in the future.