'Gun Control' Failures? Felons Still
Have Guns Despite Prohibitions

A Coeur d'Alene, Idaho man will be spending 46 months in a federal prison after being convicted for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and this happened more than a year after he was convicted in December 2024 for the same thing.

Perhaps not surprisingly to Second Amendment advocates, the report about 53-year-old Shawn Allen Cline is hardly unique, and it underscores the contention that 'gun control' law, which seem more designed to restrict law-abiding citizens, don't prevent criminals from getting guns.

What may set Cline apart from others is that when he was taken into custody at his home, police "found him in the garage holding a beer in one hand and a marijuana pipe in the other," according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Cline also admitted to having a shotgun, a homemade shotgun, and a pipe bomb, for which he explained, "he wanted to blow stuff up." A bomb squad from nearby Spokane, Wash., disarmed the device.

As a felon in possession of a firearm, Cline has plenty of company. …