The so-called QAnon Shaman–the dude roaming through the Capitol wearing buffalo horns–became the most recognizable figure from January 6th. It’s kind of hard not to when you’re running around DC shirtless in January and wearing a headdress that looks like you’re cosplaying as a Flintstones character.
Like a lot of people from that day, he found himself in hot water on federal charges. He was convicted of a felony, stripping him of his gun rights for life.
Only one thing could have helped him, and that was a presidential pardon. While President Joe Biden opted to pardon his family, traitorous generals, and lying medical advisors, among others, he was never going to pardon any of the January 6th bunch.
Trump, however, did that as one of his first official acts in his second term. Now, he’s going to celebrate that pardon in style.
Jake Chansley, the far-right conspiracy theorist and Capitol rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Monday, plans to buy some guns to celebrate.
Chansley, who received one of the longest prison sentences of any Jan 6. rioter, wrote “I got a pardon baby! Thank you President Trump!”, in a post on X.
“Now I am gonna buy some motha f*kin guns!!!” he continued.
Anyone who has been convicted of a felony, like Chansley, is banned under federal law from possessing “any firearm or ammunition,“ but Trump’s presidential pardon removes this ban and restores Chansley’s right to buy arms.
Nicknamed the QAnon Shaman, he became one of the most publicly recognised figures of the riots after breaking into the Senate while wearing red, white and blue face paint, a fur headdress with bison horns, and carrying a six-foot long spear.
The rest of the article goes on to try and paint Chansley as some kind of lunatic, because of course it does.
However, his gun rights are now fully restored. Legally, he can buy guns right now, though it’s probable that it’ll take some time to get into the NICS database. Still, he’s cleared and can buy firearms.
And that’s really the most American thing out there these days. You can’t just do that in most other countries. They’ve got mountains and mountains of regulations that make it difficult, if not impossible, to buy guns.
Here, so long as you’re not a felon, the government really can’t stop you from buying one in most cases.
But Chansley was prohibited. He was prohibited because of just that reason, and now it’s gone, so he can buy a gun and the cops can’t really do anything to him.
Then again, they did plenty as it was.
Now, though, he can go on with his life and by deciding to celebrate by buying guns, it’s a definite affirmation that he is, in fact, a free man in every sense of the word these days. Frankly, his conviction never should have resulted in him losing his right to keep and bear arms in the first place, in my not so humble opinion, but it did. Now, it doesn’t.
I’m sure for Chansley, life is pretty good these days.
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