Originally Posted by
downzero
These sorts of delusions are commonplace in the online gun community.
Because the law is made by a political process, everyone tends to have an opinion about it. The problem with that is that in America, there are numerous sources of law, from traditional common law (judge decisions) going all the way back to England, statutes from all 50 states, federal law, and the entire body of administrative law interpreting both states and federal law, just to mention a few. People think the law is just some simple process of reading a few statutes or whatever, without realizing that in the background, there's a 1000 year tradition that they really have to understand to give context to any statute, regulation, or even municipal ordinance, etc.
As a lawyer myself, I often do not comment on these threads other than sometimes to point out that a prevailing interpretation is wrong. Sometimes I won't even say that, because I tire of people trying to lecture me when I have a doctorate in the subject, and of course nothing I say on the forum should be perceived as legal advice, which needs to be very specific and based on the facts of a particular circumstance.
Sometimes determining what the actual rule of law is on the ground can be extremely difficult. If someone sounds absolutely certain he knows what the law is, I am usually very skeptical of not only that opinion, but anything else that person says, too.