Things go sideways after they stumble into an old high-school friend and his dishonorably discharged military buddies.

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Aliens without green cards, dishonorably discharged military employees and anyone who has renounced American citizenship are barred from handling explosives under the new law.

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Capitalists who behave honorably and with restraint no longer have either the platform or the vocabulary to preach their own standards and to condemn capitalists who behave dishonorably and recklessly.

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In 1993, Congress passed the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, which created a national background-check system and a list of people forbidden to own a gun: felons, the mentally ill, persons who committed a domestic-violence misdemeanor, drug addicts and the dishonorably discharged.

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He did report to duty to a U.S. Army Base in Japan (ironic again, since U.S. bases are there to protect Japan from North Korean attack) where he was court-martialed (in his sixties, he wore again his private uniform), spent time in the stockade, and dishonorably discharged.

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Under the current NICS system, buyers may be denied the purchase of a firearm for reasons such as being indicted or convicted of a felony, admitting to being addicted to a controlled substances, having been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces, being subject to a restraining order, as well as other regulations.

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