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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HandsomeToad, post: 440143, member: 12965&quot;]You are referring to items which are known as CONSUMABLES, therefore, a bad example to use! Try handguns? How about a law forbidding ownership of handguns without a built in safety? Rut-roh! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> That would be an ex post facto law, considering the laws that existed prior to it, made the handguns lawful to own. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While they can make a law making it illegal to manufacture handguns without a built in safety, they cannot make ownership of them illegal, without making it illegal to own any handgun. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ribbit <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ps: One additional piece I left off above and at the end:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Let&#039;s say they did pass such a law and, of course, it doesn&#039;t affect the handgun you already own so you can continue to possess it lawfully. Could they make it illegal to sell hanguns without the built in safety device?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That&#039;s an interesting scenario because if they did, you could never sell your gun. However, if they made it unlawful to sell without an attachable safety device, then you could still sell it by buying a trigger lock and including it with the gun when you sell it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#039;s how it works! While they can say no more can be manufactured, they cannot say you cannot sell yours without giving you a way you can or it becomes an ex post facto law.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That is, unless they ban the ownership &amp; sale of all hand guns, which then you will be breaking the law by retaining the gun you possess, which now comes full circle to the poor examples of Marijuana and Cocaine you used in the beginning.&nbsp; :goof:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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