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Supreme Court agrees non-violent misdemeanor crimes may not strip Second Amendment Rights
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[quote:Bobby O' Bill 75157661:MV8zNTY0NDE2XzYzNjc4Mjc2X0E0MTY2MDU5] I think this thread is mis-titled. Since both men were facing years in prison before sentence reduction, these couldn't possibly have been misdemeanors. Misdemeanors do not usually disqualify from gun purchases, but felonies often did. [/quote]
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6/27/17 | by Chris Eger
The nation’s high court on Monday let stand a ruling against the government in the combined cases of two men blocked from gun possession after run-ins that resulted in convictions for non-serious crimes.
This week, the court declined to take up an appeal sought by the Obama-era Justice Department in the cases of Binderup v. the U.S. Attorney General and Suarez v. the U.S. Attorney General. Four Justices were needed to grant the petition but only two, Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, felt the court should hear the case.
Last September, a 15-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania disagreed 8-7, siding with Binerup and Suarez in a lengthy 174-page decision. In the end, that panel cited the relatively minor sentences passed on the two men as the reason to disregard their crimes as being serious enough to void their gun rights.
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