ATF say medical-marijuana patients are prohibited from owning guns
Everybody who buys
a gun must fill out ATF Form 4473, which asks: "Are you an unlawful
user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant,
narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?"
Answer yes, and you don't get the gun. Falsely answer no, and you've just committed a crime.
The ATF's letter, sent out Sept. 21, clarifies that the bureau
includes medical-marijuana patients in that group of prohibited buyers
because their marijuana use is inherently illegal federally.
The letter also tells gun sellers that they could be in line for
punishment if they knowingly sell to medical-marijuana patients.
"Any person," bureau Assistant Director Arthur Herbert writes in the
open letter to all gun sellers, "who uses or is addicted to marijuana,
regardless of whether his or her State has passed legislation
authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes, is ... prohibited by
Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition."
