Question about convicted felons and firearm self defense.

[Glocksin]

Lets imagine 2 scenarios:

The first is a gunfight inside a home involving homeowner with legal weapon and intruder.Homeowner is injured to the point of not being able to defend themselves anymore and gives relative/friend,who is a convicted felon,permission to use the gun.Felon successfully subdues intruder.

The second scenario is a felon who is placed at gunpoint and immediately disarms attacker in self defense.

What are the legal precincts regarding a situation like these,being that felons cannot legally handle firearms.

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[retsupt99]

If my life, or the life of a family member is at stake, I'm giving my firearm to the worst 'visiting' felon in my home to 'do in' the visiting dirtbag...I'll deal with the consequences later.OMOYMV

[dukalmighty]

In all probability there would be no charges filed,since the felon did not personally own the weapon and only used it to protect everyone from the BG's,second case self defense,If I was on a Jury and the only reason the guy was posessing a gun was because he disarmed somebody in self defense I'm voting not guilty.A felony conviction does not take your right to self defense away,just unlawful posession of firearms

[QKShooter]

If you gave a firearm to an individual knowing that the person that you gave that firearm to was a convicted felon then you would be in violation of the law and you could be charged with a felony if the "powers that be" decided that they wanted to prosecute you.
And if you were found guilty then you would also be a convicted felon.

The law does not state that you may legally give a felon access to a firearm as long as it's only for a few minutes and only if it's to terminate another bad guy that isn't the felon that you just gave firearm access to.

You would need to make your argument in court or in front of a judge if it ever went that far.

[jwhite75]

As i work in the courts everyday, I agree with QK and his take on it to the letter of the law. Now that being said a good cop would not charge anybody if the shoot was righteous.

[archer51]

In both scenarios it is going to be up to the local DA whether or not charges are filed. In the situations described, a good DA will choose not to file charges. A DA who's a jackass will file charges regardless.

[QKShooter]

Hopefully in the scenarios posted above "common sense" would be King. Sadly, that is not always the case.
I would hope that rational thinking would prevail.

Let's say that you were in a convenience store and a robber burst in and immediately shot the cashier.
You were a customer in the store and got behind the bad guy and took him out with your carry knife to the jugular.
Then you immediately called 911 for Police & an Ambulance thereby saving the innocent cashiers life...because the cashier would very likely have "bled out" and died from the gunshot wound had you not reacted so quickly.

Your knife had a 4.5" blade but, the only "legal" carry blade length in your state was a blade "less than 3 inches" - would that little anomaly get intentionally overlooked?

I would certainly hope so.
But, on the other hand nobody could really say with 100% certainty in advance.

[Guantes]

To a certain extent life's a crap shoot.

[QKShooter]

Ain't that the truth.

To a certain extent life's a crap shoot.