Gun Control & RKBA

The Gun Control Act (GCA), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), makes it unlawful for certain categories of persons to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms or ammunition, to include any person:

1) convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

2) who is a fugitive from justice;

3) who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802);

4) who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;

5) who is an illegal alien;

6) who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;

7) who has renounced his or her United States citizenship;

8) who is subject to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; or

9) who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.