Following the legalization of hashish in Minnesota, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) clarified that hashish customers are nonetheless “federally outlined as an ‘illegal person’ of a managed substance” and subsequently “prohibited from transport, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition.”
In a statement, ATF’s Performing Particular Agent in Cost Jeff Reed, of the St. Paul Discipline Division, stated that till hashish is federally authorized, “firearms homeowners and possessors ought to be aware that it stays federally unlawful to combine marijuana with firearms and ammunition.”
“As regulators of the firearms trade and enforcers of firearms legal guidelines, we felt it was vital to remind Minnesotans of this distinction because the marijuana legal guidelines modify right here within the State of Minnesota.” — Reed in a press release
In February, a federal decide in Oklahoma dominated that the federal regulation barring individuals who use hashish from proudly owning firearms is unconstitutional. That call is beneath enchantment. In April, a federal decide in Texas made the same ruling, and referenced the blanket federal hashish possession possession by President Joe Biden (D), suggesting that, even when the defendant “had been convicted of straightforward marijuana possession, that conviction could be expunged by the blanket presidential pardon of all such marijuana possessions that, like Connelly’s, befell earlier than October 6, 2022.”
A Home bill launched in April by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) goals to finish the prohibition of firearm gross sales to hashish customers in states that permit adult- and medical-use hashish. That measure is at present within the Home Committee on the Judiciary.
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