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NC Supreme Ct holds old nonviolent felony no bar to gun rights

Posted by David Hardy · 29 August 2009 01:20 PM

Opinion in pdf here, courtesy of reader Carl in Chicago. It's under discussion at the Volokh Conspiracy and by Instapundit. The latter makes a good point about "felony inflation." E.g., if the felony theft level is pegged to $500 (as I believe it was in Arizona's 1977 criminal code reform) ... in 1977 $500 was a lot of money. I was driving a used VW I bought for $600, and filling it with, as I remember, 40 cent a gallon gasoline, and living in a decent $175/month apartment.

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Monty | August 29, 2009 3:04 PM | Reply

It is noteworthy that the convicted felon had has is right to bear arms restored, and a later law sought to undo the restoration. It is far different from a blanket right of non-violent felons to bear arms. It may be a step towards it, but there is much further to go.

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