A gun rights decision provides a preview of the justice Amy Coney Barrett might be, both liberals an
Source: Washington Post
By Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow
10/10/2020, 12:09:44 p.m.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett acknowledges that the decision she considers most significant in her relatively short time as a judge “sounds kind of radical”: She doesn’t believe the Constitution gives government the authority to ban all felons from owning guns.
One gun law expert calls the opinion an “audition tape” for the Supreme Court nomination she received, and Democrats plan to argue at Barrett’s confirmation hearings beginning Monday that it puts her far outside the mainstream. Even, they say, to the right of her conservative former boss, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“She is extreme on this issue,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “She would go much farther than her mentor Scalia did in striking down common sense measures.”
Supporters are enthusiastic about Barrett’s 37-page dissent in Kanter v. Barr, in which she argues only those shown to be dangerous may be stripped of their Second Amendment rights to guns, and that simply being convicted of a felony is not enough.
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I think certain felony SEC violations do not impact your ability to own guns.
For example, I think Martha Stewart can still own guns.
OTOH, I think those folks with felony SEC violations, if they were restricted from buying a gun, would/should they also be restricted from buying say the Remington Company (now in bankruptcy) as a whole?
District Court Holds that Some White-Collar Felons May Lawfully Possess Firearms Due to a Little Known Exemption For Crimes 'Relating to the Regulation of Business Practices'
In Reyes, District Judge John Bates of the D.D.C. appears to have become the first Federal jurist to hold that some white-collar felons can lawfully possess firearms, notwithstanding the fact that they have been convicted of a crime "punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year."
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."
I guess if Bernie Madoff ever gets pardoned, he'll be able to rob folks one at a time. 
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IMNSHO non-violent offenders fall into two groups. There's the usual car thieves, pot smokers, shop-lifters and such and then there's the "civilized" offenders which are covered by subsection (A). 
Just so we're clear about how well formulated and clear all of these laws are, I point to subsection (B) where it says in so many words that one sometimes means two. 
