If you hold a legal, medical marijuana card in one of nine western states, a federal court just decided that it’s okay for you to lose your Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Fox News reported that on Wednesday, a federal appeals court decided that the federal government’s ban on the sale of firearms to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment.

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling in a lawsuit brought by a Nevada woman, S. Rowan Wilson, who was unable to purchase a firearm because she held a medical marijuana card.

California, Oregon, and Washington are three of the nine states under the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and therefore affected by this ruling.

Those with medical marijuana cards are assumed to be using the drug, which is illegal on the federal level — and it’s illegal to sell firearms to illegal drug users.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has made it clear to gun sellers that if someone possesses a medical marijuana card that they are then able to assume that the person uses the drug.

That would make sense…

Fox News reported:

“The 9th Circuit in its 3-0 decision agreed that it’s reasonable for federal regulators to assume a medical marijuana card holder is more likely to use the drug. In addition, a ban on the sale of guns to marijuana and other drug users is reasonable because the use of such drugs ‘raises the risk of irrational or unpredictable behavior with which gun use should not be associated,’ Senior District Judge Jed Rakoff said.” The 9th Circuit also rejected other constitutional challenges to the ban that were raised by Wilson.”

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Ironically, this denial of Second Amendment rights may very well disproportionately apply to liberals, although there are certainly people with legitimate reasons for having a medical marijuana card on both sides of the aisle.

Although marijuana is illegal on the federal level, it does seem a bit ridiculous for someone to lose the right to bear arms because of a medical marijuana card.

Regardless of where you stand on the legalization of marijuana, this does seem like a case where common sense and the legal system don’t mesh well.

Then again, if you’re against the legalization of marijuana this may not bother you. Those that are for legalization would probably point to the glaring hypocrisy of the reasoning and the denial of Second Amendment Rights based on it.

No matter where you stand, if you support the Second Amendment, it’s prudent to be very wary any time the government encroaches on it.

H/T: YoungCons

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