Medical Marijuana Card holders and firearms

Greensmurf420

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Did you know that of you are a legal medical marijuana card holder you can not possess a firearm or ammunition? What would happen if someone found out we have a medical marijuana card and try to rob/hurt us? Shouldn't we have the right to protect ourselves and our much needed medication?

FEDERAL FIREARMS NOTICE The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has directed federal firearms licensees, in an open letter issued in 2011, not to transfer firearms or ammunition to users of a controlled substance, including marijuana, regardless of whether their state has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes. According to the federal directive, any user of marijuana "is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition." If a federal firearms licensee is aware that a person is in possession of a card authorizing the possession and use of marijuana under state law, that licensee has "reasonable cause to believe" that the person is an unlawful user of a controlled substance, and may not transfer firearms or ammunition to that person, even if the person answered "no" to question 11.e on ATF Form 4473.

Link to ATF open letter: https://www.atf.gov/file/60211/download
Link to ATF Form 4473: https://www.atf.gov/file/61446/download
 
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