Reply #5: Congratulations, NRA and useful idiots!

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Your exuberant efforts at assuring that guns end up in the hands of as many people as possible - despite felony convictions and/or mental health problems - has resulted in situations like those described in this blurb and elsewhere in the NYT article. First and foremost, the NRA is the lobbying arm of gun manufacturers, whose primary concern is their bottom line. They have no regard for where those guns end up; they only want to sell more firearms by hook or by crook - public safety be damned!

I grudgingly accept that the gun culture has made such inroads in this country that elimination is now impossible, although I feel it's an issue that's too important to be left up to the whims of individual states. Federal law prohibits gun ownership by all felons. Period. I believe that's too restrictive, as it makes no distinction between instances such as described above and someone convicted in a nonviolent drug-possession case. Perhaps the federal law needs to be amended in order that felons can regain their right to gun ownership - based, of course, upon individual circumstances - a law that supersedes all state laws.