Nick Rekieta & his wife have just been arrested on felony gun and drug charges
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Well....uh....huh.
HUH.
I will say, it looks like the gun charges (not a lawyer, but based on language) are potentially only because of the drugs. We'll just have to wait and see how it shakes out. He had guns, that was well known. Once you get busted for the drugs I guess you're a prohibited gun owner, though.
And, yeah, as someone else said, his wife is looking roooough. I'd only see pictures like once or twice, but she looks completely different...and much, much worse.
I wish them the best (unless there was more nefarious shit, of course), and we'll just have to see what's what as more information gets out. He's got a lot of enemies, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that someone sicced the authorities on him over some minor bullshit but, again, as mentioned, his wife looking so rough makes me suspect there were some hard drugs going around.
I wonder how they got caught, too. It will be an interesting story, I'm sure. One way or the other.
It's actually worse, much worse. Notice how the charge is 'user of controlled substances', because section 922 of the federal criminal code just says any user of controlled substances
This technically has no time limit - which is why Hunter Biden (as much as I usually say haha fuck that guy) is being charged, we know he used drugs, he's admitted it, so him having a firearm ever is technically chargeable.
Thankfully this is being challenged in court, but holy shit it is bad.
I can understand not allowing operating firearms while under the influence but just possessing them should have nothing directly to do with the drugs
And that exact argument is currently bubbling up to scotus. Under the Bruen test there is no history, text, or tradition of barring drug users from possessing firearms in general.
Any analogous laws related to alcohol deal with the actual use of firearms while also under the influence, not possession in general.
Put more simply, while they may have made it illegal for the drunk to wave his gun around, nobody in the past would have thought it was okay to prevent him from owning a gun at all or use it when he was sober.
Didn't the 9th Circuit just decide that felons can have guns?