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Anything you get sited for would be on your record similar to the way your traffic tickets are. If they are going to revise gun legislation to limit sales of gu

Anything you get sited for would be on your record similar to the way your traffic tickets are. If they are going to revise gun legislation to limit sales of guns to specific types of violations, there are a lot of other violations I think should be higher up on the list. Not against the idea of this, but IMO any decisions about fire-arms ownership limits should be a separate issue, not part of how they legislate drug possession.

giantg2 6y ago
The issue is that if you challenge a civil matter in court, the jury doesn't have to be unanimous in the decision of your guilt, and you generally don't have the same protections/procedures in place at a civil trial. The the drug conviction restriction is already a federal restriction. So you could have people "convicted" of a civil offense by a split jury who would end up losing their rights. That's assuming the the feds consider a civil judgement the same as a criminal conviction on this matter. Even without the conviction, I believe the federal form requires a purchaser to attest to not using a controlled substance, which the civil judgement would indicate one has used. I think criminal background checks only show criminal citations. Civil actions generally shouldn't show. Traffic citations are generally treated as criminal offenses (summary offense), but maybe some states are different.