United States Seventh Circuit

Held that a felon may constitutionally be barred from possessing a firearm even if the crime was nonviolent. A man who pleaded guilty to mail fraud contended that the Second Amendment did not allow him to be permanently banned from owning a gun, given that his crime did not involve violence. Disagreeing with him in a 2-1 decision, the Seventh Circuit rejected his challenge to federal and Wisconsin felon dispossession statutes.

Appellate Information

• Published 2019/03/15

Judges

• Flaum

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel