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Drug Dealing Conviction Survives Second Amendment Challenge

admin · 2026-04-07T00:52:05.857Z

The felon-in-possession cases coming out of the federal circuits right now are worth paying attention to, even when the facts make the defendant easy to dismiss. "His disarmament is consistent with the history and tradition of Founding-era laws." The court's reasoning here is blunt: founding-era governments executed people for felonies, so stripping gun rights is the lesser punishment implied by the greater. Hard to argue with the logic when the guy was shooting at an Uber. "The non-violen...

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Drug Dealing Conviction Survives Second Amendment Challenge

The Seventh Circuit upheld a lifetime gun ban for a Wisconsin man convicted of drug dealing and caught with multiple firearms after a 2022 shooting incident. The court found his disarmament consistent with founding-era legal traditions under the Bruen historical-tradition test. Critically, the ruling explicitly leaves open whether non-violent felons face the same permanent ban.

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