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Originally Posted by Twolunger
If you buy one enjoy it while you can. Pocahontas and the other progressives? will take it away if one of them can defeat Trump. They have already promised that. At least Gaffer Joe will allow you to keep a shotgun as long as you only shoot it in the air to ward off home invaders.
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Not legally, according to the Constitution of our country, anyway.
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EX POST FACTO CLAUSE
A misnomer in that actually two Constitutional clauses are involved. The U.S. Constitution's Article 1 Section 9, C.3 states: 'No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed,' and Section 10 says: 'No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law. . . .'
The 'words and the intent' of the Ex Post Facto Clause encompass '[e]very law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.' Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. (1 Dall.) 386, 390 (1798) (opinion of Chase, J.).
An ex post facto law is a law passed after the occurrence of an event or action which retrospectively changes the legal consequences of the event or action.
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https://www.lectlaw.com/def/e086.htm