The proposed revisions represent “a formal, federal acknowledgment that medical marijuana is no longer in the same legal category it once occupied.”
By Dan Russell and Will Hall, Jones Walker LLP
In recent years approximately 4 million Americans lost their right to buy, possess or use a firearm. An overwhelming percentage of those people have no idea that the same federal law that led to Hunter Biden’s conviction also applied to them. In the Venn diagram of life in the United States, the overlap of firearm ownership and medical marijuana patients is simply not allowed.
The future, however, is looking like that may not be the case for very much longer.
There is a document that sits at the center of every legal firearm sale in America. It is a government form, dense with certifications and warnings, and for many years it has contained a line that has been a quiet trap for otherwise law-abiding citizens. The line warned that marijuana use, whether medical or recreational, state-licensed or otherwise, remains unlawful under federal law and disqualifies the buyer from purchasing a gun.
But now, finally, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is proposing to change that language.
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