Gun-rights activist Adam Kokesh arrested in Herndon

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31. A person who fills out a license form or a 4473

Are they being compelled to do so?

I see the point WRT a felon in possession getting an additional charge of not registering simply because registering would require them to incriminate themselves.

However, convicted felons are prohibited from owning firearms and getting carry permits in the first place, and they're not under a compulsion to either buy firearms or apply for carry permits.

So, my net comment here is ... I don't know, I'd like to see case law specifically with regard to 4473 forms and carry permit applications. The logic that 'you can't be charged for something where you're being asked to incriminate yourself', taken to an extreme, where the crime itself is the testimony (as it could be on a 4473 or a CHL application) would seem to imply that nobody could ever be charged with perjury for signing that their statement was true and correct on an affidavit where they'd lied.