When you do a lot of reading to keep up on the latest information on guns and politics like I do, you see a lot of the same things coming up with slight twists as anti-2A politicians keep trying to steal our guns.
They’re generally consistent about their end game. I’ll give them that.
Occasionally, though, something comes up from out of left field that you never even considered, that you’d never even thought of coming up before. And it’s that kind of situation that we’re talking about today. Zachary Stieber writes,
An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling.
A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.”
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman rejected two motions to dismiss, but the third motion, based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, triggered the dismissal of the case on March 8.
“The noncitizen possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores,” Judge Coleman, appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her 8-page ruling. “Thus, the court grants Carbajal-Flores’ motion to dismiss.”
I’ll admit that I never would have expected a judge appointed by such an anti-gun administration as the Obama administration to expand gun rights to anyone.
It makes you wonder what the motivations in this ruling really are. Is it to actually try to do the job of applying the law consistently to everyone, or is it something else? I’ll let you decide on that, and we’ll stay focused on the firearms aspect of this since that’s the focus of our site here.
Having said that, there’s no doubt that this ruling, if allowed to stand (assuming that it is appealed), could very well change the character of gun ownership here in the U.S.
We’ll have to see how that plays out.