In an issue that may find Tea Partiers and Progressives in an unlikely alliance, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has sent a letter to firearms dealers across the country telling them that they should not be selling guns and ammunition to registered medical marijuana users.
According to the Chicago Tribune:
Even if states like California allow medical marijuana use, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the federal government still sees marijuana as an illegal drug. Laws preventing marijuana users and users of other controlled substances, from buying guns and ammo already exist, but the letter adds further clarification.
Michael Garcia with Sacramento-based WeGrow, a company that helps medical marijuana grow their own pot, calls his client’s patients, not druggies.
“The only thing we’re going to accomplish is taking guns away from the innocent,” Garcia said.
It’s been long known that marijuana users are not violent. This is sure to make an interesting Supreme Court case, should the court take it.
As opposed to selling them to Drunken Hunter.