CBS13: 67-year-old shoot out with robbers

[aquaek4i]

Just like him we should all be armed.

http://cbs13.com/crime/suspect.shooting.sacramento.2.1434228.html

[CalNRA]

They came to his home for one purpose: to get his medicinal marijuana, he says.

medical marijuana? test case?

[corrupt]

medical marijuana? test case?

Medicinal marijuana doesn't need a test case in California.

[johnthomas]

Medicinal marijuana doesn't need a test case in California.

The Feds say you cannot own guns if you do dope, so why wouldn't this be a test case?

[CalNRA]

yep. the 4473 question 11e asks if you are "unlawful user" or "addicted" to marijuana.

I am not up to date on federal marijuana laws, but I recall technically all marijuana users are illegal except a very small group of people with grandfathered in permits. And the definition of "addicted" is to be debated.

While feds have not focusing on raiding dispensaries, I imagine a guy who uses medical weed and shoots intruders with a pistol may yield a test case.

Or the DA just calls it a justifiable self defense and defer it to the feds and the feds ignore it. Who knows.

[gotgunz]

Maybe he didn't fill out a 4473... there was a day in this state when private party sales did not have to go through an FFL.

[CalNRA]

Then the GCA of 68 would have done the same thing. The 4473 was a product of the GCA....

[shovel88ci]

Thats what they get for breaking into a home.

[johnthomas]

There really is no "debate" to addiction.
Long-term marijuana abuse can lead to addiction; that is, compulsive drug seeking and abuse despite its known harmful effects upon social functioning in the context of family, school, work, and recreational activities. Long-term marijuana abusers trying to quit reportirritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety, and drug craving, all of which make it difficult to quit. These withdrawal symptoms begin within about 1 day following abstinence, peak at 2-3 days, and subside within 1 or 2 weeks following drug cessation.

[haveyourmile]

There really is no "debate" to addiction.
Long-term marijuana abuse can lead to addiction; that is, compulsive drug seeking and abuse despite its known harmful effects upon social functioning in the context of family, school, work, and recreational activities. Long-term marijuana abusers trying to quit reportirritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety, and drug craving, all of which make it difficult to quit. These withdrawal symptoms begin within about 1 day following abstinence, peak at 2-3 days, and subside within 1 or 2 weeks following drug cessation.

I don't smoke marijuana but you've got to be kidding me. I don't buy into all this crap about marijuana addiction/abuse and "compulsive drug seeking" behavior. I've known plenty of people who smoke marijuana both regularly and casually and I've yet to see anyone go through withdrawal symptoms worth noting.

[Anothercoilgun]

Don't like the use of grabbed in the reports. Cali is already a gun grabbing state. We need no help associating grab with guns. Had this been a LEO's house I guarantee you many official verbs would have been substituted.