Gun Dealer's Case Reaches High Court

Four years ago in Laredo, Tex., firearms dealer Thomas Lamar Bean decided that a night out in Mexico would be the perfect way to cap off a day at a gun show. But by the time it was over, he had landed in jail and his livelihood had been destroyed.

When Bean reached the border that evening, Mexican authorities discovered 200 bullets in his car and charged him with smuggling ammunition. Sentenced without a trial to five years in a Mexican prison, Bean served four months before being sent to a U.S. jail under a U.S.-Mexico treaty. A federal judge in Texas promptly reduced his sentence to probation, and later eliminated that, too, but Bean was out of the gun business because U.S. law prohibits anyone with a felony conviction, even a foreign one, from obtaining a firearms license.

Posted on 2002-10-16 01:07:25.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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