Federal law prohibits selling firearms to marijuana users
By Scott Orr | The Daily Courier
If you hold a medical marijuana card in Arizona, you cannot possess a firearm.
This may come as a surprise to you, said Sherrie Seibert, co-owner of Insight Firearms Training.
“We’re seeing customers coming into the store … and have no understanding, because either they are uninformed or misinformed, that, when they hold a (medical marijuana card) … they are a prohibited possessor by federal law.”
“The (U.S.) Department of Justice has long had a ban on gun sales to marijuana users,” Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk said.
That’s because, although the state of Arizona allows the use of medical marijuana, it’s still illegal to possess or use under federal law.
It is disappointing tour government remains dangerously out of touch with science and the will of the people on this issue. The federal government’s willful ignorance on marijuana continues to drive people to use far more dangerous, addictive and deadly opiates.
The NRA should immediately step in and defend this egregious infringement of patients’ 2nd Amendment rights.
~Ryan Hurley
