grayfox Wrote:I am not against the 18-21 background/juvenile records thing per se but again, it will probably be thrown out under equal protection (14th), in this way: suppose a 21 yr, 1 mo, old buys that weapon where a 20 yr old, 11 months cannot because both have a Juvy record but only the 20 yr/11 month old has his checked. That's unequal protection and the 20 yd/11 mo will find an ACLU lawyer to take that to court and have it thrown out... THEN go out and buy that weapon. So it should be all Juvy records or none... and perhaps some process to pardon or end a Juvy record effect, depending on severity etc.
I have always been in the camp of reinstating citizens rights after having served their sentence. If the punishment fit the crime in most cases, then they would be old men by the time they got out of prison or would have been sent to the other place by the end of a rope. If these people can not be trusted with voting, driving an automobile or owning a firearm, then what the hell are they letting them out into society in the first place? Too many criminal acts are lightly punished if at all, yet they then throw these miscreants back into our neighborhoods without a second thought..