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Forwarding this email I just received. Do we need to start running background checks on the Thursday night book club?
Dear MSSA Friends,
MSSA has just filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in US v. Stegmeier. Why is this important?
If you allow a "prohibited person" (someone ineligible to possess a firearm under federal law) to enter your home, without knowing that that person is prohibited, should you be charged with the federal felony of illegally transferring a firearm to a prohibited person?
In this brief, MSSA argues that you should not. However, Stegmeier was convicted in federal district court for what appears to be essentially this. This case is now on appeal to the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
We felt it important to argue the case, so a precedent is NOT established that you or I may be prosecuted for a federal felony just because we allow somebody into our home or place of business who we don't know is a prohibited person - so we don't need to do a criminal records background check on every person who comes through the door.
In our brief, we covered just a couple of issues. Other amici (and the Appellant, Stegmeier) argued other, related issues. You may access and read the MSSA brief from:
http://progunleaders.org/Stegmeier/index.html
Best wishes,
Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com
Dear MSSA Friends,
MSSA has just filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in US v. Stegmeier. Why is this important?
If you allow a "prohibited person" (someone ineligible to possess a firearm under federal law) to enter your home, without knowing that that person is prohibited, should you be charged with the federal felony of illegally transferring a firearm to a prohibited person?
In this brief, MSSA argues that you should not. However, Stegmeier was convicted in federal district court for what appears to be essentially this. This case is now on appeal to the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
We felt it important to argue the case, so a precedent is NOT established that you or I may be prosecuted for a federal felony just because we allow somebody into our home or place of business who we don't know is a prohibited person - so we don't need to do a criminal records background check on every person who comes through the door.
In our brief, we covered just a couple of issues. Other amici (and the Appellant, Stegmeier) argued other, related issues. You may access and read the MSSA brief from:
http://progunleaders.org/Stegmeier/index.html
Best wishes,
Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com
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