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        It’s a question on a federal background check. For people who live in states where scheduled drugs are legal for recreation, it’s a grey area. The state wouldn’t care, but the feds do.

        It’s basically boils down to “gotcha” requirements. If you get investigated for federal crimes and also own firearms but live in a state where some scheduled drugs are legal that you use, the fed can still just flag any future checks and charge you with lying on any previous background checks.

        I am not a fan of that kind of legal fuckery, especially if a person happens to be charged with a crime they didn’t commit and still get investigated.

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          It’s worth noting that this kind of shit never happens and the only reason Hunter is being charged with it is because that’s all they could make stick

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        In this case the crime would be purchasing a handgun in a state in which you are not a resident.

        Handguns can only be purchased in your home state. It’s why California’s handgun roster is such a big deal. They simply refuse to allow new models of handguns to be sold there regardless of whether or not their features are illegal, and buying them out of state is prohibited.

        With long guns, the gun’s features must be legal in both the state where the sale is taking place and the state in which the buyer lives. With pistols it’s simply illegal to transfer the firearm to someone from out of state.

        If I was from Arizona and wanted to give a single-shot 22 plinking pistol to my Dad in Texas, I’d have to sell it to a local firearms dealer, have them transfer it to a Texas dealer, and have my Dad buy it there.

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      No, it isn’t. Hunter is being charged with lying about drug use on a gun form. This would be Trump buying a gun with active indictments against him.

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    It’s funny to watch his facade occasionally fall and the curtain to be peeled back, and yet the show just keeps going.

    Unlike other politicians, the trail of grifts with him is long, and yet people still keep him going.

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          It’s also people who brush off inconvenient information because a guy hates all the people they hate and they wish they could have a huge platform to say what he says.

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        There are multiple things. Part of it is that they never hear of news like this part of it is that "there’s no way he did all of that, the fake news/dwu state/globalists are making things up, because they are scared of him. And for the remaining: “yeah, dauber he did it, but democrats are already doing it/would do it if they had a chance”.

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    While Trump remains the frontrunner in the GOP race for the White House, he has also been indicted in four criminal cases this year, and therefore cannot purchase a gun under the law.

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    Is he shopping for his final firearm? You know, the pistol that stops him from being taken to jail?

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        The same Secret Service that conveniently yet ‘accidentally’ deleted all of their texts from January 5-7 after they were subpoenaed and told to preserve those texts? The same Secret Service where Mike Pence said (like a Criminal Minds victim), “I’m not getting in the car, Tim. I trust you, Tim, but you’re not driving the car. If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I’m not getting in the car.”

        I wouldn’t particularly hold your breath about Trump’s Secret Service detail being particularly loyal to the United States.

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        Trust me you don’t. I was 13 when my whole classroom gathered around a computer to see Sadam hanging online. It really fucked me up

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        Even if I saw the body with my own eyes, I’d wonder if it was a double tfg ends up in ksa.

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    So a spokesman posts on Twitter that he bought a gun and then someone has to delete the post and say it is not true? Sounds like amateur hour for his campaign but I thought he only hired the “best and brightest”.

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    I can’t wait til he snorts a ton of coke he’s next debate so any one that’s ever done the drug can pretend he was totally sober, again.

    • Woah woah - as someone who has never done cocaine, is that why he was so nuts (even for him) in the first presidential debate? I’ve been wondering how anyone could have witnessed that and still voted for him, but it never clicked for me that he might be on something.

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      Plot twist: he runs out/spills his supply, they run to the nearest corner and it’s fent laced.

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        Spends the rest of the debate walking from his podium to the corner. You know just in case he sees any coke in the corner.