Second Circuit Upholds Gun Ban for All Felons, Including Non-Violent Offenders

Second Circuit Upholds Gun Ban for All Felons, Including Non-Violent Offenders

The government can permanently disarm someone with prior convictions for financial felonies, a federal appeals court has ruled. On Monday, a three-judge panel for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a New York man’s as-applied challenge to restore his Second Amendment rights despite a pair of decade-old bank and tax fraud convictions. Though the plaintiff argued that the… Source