{"id":614,"date":"2013-02-10T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2013-05-27T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T21:50:51","slug":"felon-gun-ownership-clause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Felon gun ownership: clause and effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.howstuffworks.com\/can-felon-own-gun-in-united-states.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twisted gun sculpture\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/43\/Non_violence_sculpture_by_carl_fredrik_reutersward_malmo_sweden.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Non-Violence&#8221; by Carl Fredrik Reutersw\u00e4rd. Photo by Francois Polito.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The idea that criminals should forfeit certain civil rights reaches back at least to the 19th-century concept of <em>civiliter mortuus<\/em> (\u201ccivil death\u201d). Today, federal law bars convicted felons from possessing firearms or ammunition. Case closed, right? Wrong. Federal law works in mysterious ways, particularly when it bumps up against state interests and high court interpretations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.howstuffworks.com\/can-felon-own-gun-in-united-states.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Can a Felon Own a Gun in the United States?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that criminals should forfeit certain civil rights reaches back at least to the 19th-century concept of civiliter mortuus (\u201ccivil death\u201d). Today, federal law bars convicted felons from possessing firearms or ammunition. Case closed, right? Wrong. Federal law works in mysterious ways, particularly when it bumps up against state interests and high court interpretations. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Felon gun ownership: clause and effect<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,290,86],"tags":[525,554,531,552,553,551,558,556,527,555,528,561,277,559,560,557,526,469],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-law-2","category-philosophy","tag-2nd-ammendment","tag-7th-circuit","tag-atf","tag-civil-death","tag-civil-disabilities","tag-commerce-clause","tag-district-of-columbia-v-heller","tag-federal-firearms-act-of-1938","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-control-act-of-1968","tag-guns","tag-irs","tag-law","tag-mcdonald-v-chicago","tag-moore-v-madigan","tag-national-firearms-act-of-1934","tag-nra","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}