“The bill would impose a 20-year prison term if you planned (‘conspired’) to purchase a firearm in order to give or raffle it to a person who, unbeknownst to you, is a ‘prohibited person.’ Who is a prohibited person? Well, there are the 150,000 law-abiding veterans who are ‘prohibited persons’ –- for no other reason than that a psychiatrist appointed a fiduciary to oversee their financial affairs. But probably the biggest category of ‘prohibited persons’ is persons who smoke marijuana. Under 18 U.S.C. 922(d)(3) and (g)(3), you cannot possess a firearm in America if you are ‘an unlawful user of … any controlled substance…'”
http://www.gunowners.org/alert02282013.htm
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