• NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
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    While Trump remains the frontrunner in the GOP race for the White House, he has also been indicted in four criminal cases this year, and therefore cannot purchase a gun under the law.

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        I mean, you don't want a Trump getting in office and then stopping someone from running for president with a bunch of bogus charges. That's why there aren't that many ways to completely disqualify someone. It's a concept that's proven to be timely as it's part of how Putin stays in power.

        … the presumption is that we should all be smart enough to realize the charges are real and not put the felon in the Whitehouse.

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        Because stopping him from running would require a constitutional amendment of some sort, OR he be disqualified under the 14th.

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      A federal judge in texas ruled last year that preventing people under indictment from purchasing firearms was unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court's Bruen decision, just FYI. So I don't think the situation is as cut and dry as it would have been just a couple years ago.

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        I don't really think it's super worthwhile to spend a bunch of time discussing if and should about those cases here. The larger point is that he apparently tried to lie about his gun cred by pretending to buy a gun. And that of he had, he would have been committing the same crime they got Hunter with.

        In other news, Bruen is terrible.