"NRA lecture details ways to circumvent restrictions on buying guns"

NRA lecture details ways to circumvent restrictions on buying guns
by John Swaine at the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/25/nra-lecture-circumvent-restrictions-buying-guns

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A National Rifle Association lecture informed hundreds of people at the group’s annual meeting in Indianapolis on Friday how they could try to stop felony convictions and mental health problems preventing people from legally buying guns.

Attorneys, firearms retailers and rank-and-file members paid the lobby group up to $295 each for a day-long seminar which included a lengthy session on “mainstream and novel” techniques for restoring gun-ownership rights, such as scrubbing criminal records or challenging them in court.

Bryan Ciyou, an attorney and the author of several books on firearms law, told the closed event hosted by the NRA Foundation, the organisation's educational arm, that the number of people being ruled out of gun ownership in America represented “a frightening position for freedom”.

Arguing that historically only those guilty of “horrific crimes” had been excluded, he said President Barack Obama's administration had been determined to ban millions of Americans from owning guns since the shooting deaths of 20 young children and six staff at a Connecticut elementary school in December 2012. He warned attendees that the president’s gun-control efforts “pose the greatest risk to the Second Amendment of all time”.




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