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Every person arrested for a felony or a domestic violence charge in this country, both of which are lifetime gun ownership bans, is an instant Anti. Some states expand that to include any and all drug offense, even an elderly woman with a misdemeanor marijuana charge from however far back, cant let that hippy smoking pot and protesting vietnam in the 60's have a gun for safety now. Others for any misdemeanor assault or battery charge, like CA, which means if for any reason you punch a guy in CA outside self defense (battery), even if they are talking dirty to your wife/daughter in front of you, and challenging you, or threaten or imply you will do so (assault). Instant 10 year ban. As more and more things are felonies under the law, and more and more non felonies also ban ownership, support for RKBA will diminish, even if privately those prohibited arm themselves regardless.
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Any one of us at any time could be deemed a felon for something mundane, perhaps a firearm oversight in a strict state, like having 11 rounds in a magazine in CA, and the majority would turn against them and denounce them as subhuman and support lifelong bans on rights simply for self preservation of our own RKBA. So that we can reply when an anti speaks against them that " well those firearms used in crimes were obtained or possessed illegaly, don't take away our rights! We are honest law abiding citizens". They don't care, and the rest of us will have lost one more supporter, and gained one more anti.