Gun shop manager Patrick Jones says he wants to sell as many firearms as he can.
But Jones won't do business with known medical cannabis patients, such as Army Spc. Sean Merritt, an honorably discharged and disabled veteran.
That refusal has drawn criticism from Merritt and other medical marijuana advocates, who have twice gone to Redding City Council chambers to denounce Jones, who happens to be mayor, for violating patients' rights.
"There is nothing in state law that says I cannot own or possess a firearm," Merritt said at a recent council meeting. "And to be told as such is branding me as a severe mental patient or a felon. I am neither."
Jones has said he is merely following the law - in this case, a federal law that forbids gun dealers from selling firearms to anyone who is "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana."
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