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Analysis: The Supreme Court Probably Won’t Save Non-Violent Felons’ Gun Rights
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“The earliest firearm legislation in colonial America prohibited Native Americans, Black people, and indentured servants from owning firearms,” the court’s per curiam opinion reads. “Likewise, Catholics in the American colonies (as in Britain) were subject to disarmament without demonstrating a proclivity for violence.”
The Third Circuit did not invent this line of thinking. Justice Amy Coney Barrett cited the concept in her Kanter dissent, although she came to the opposite conclusion about the constitutionality of gun bans for non-violent felons. |
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If they are too dangerous to have a gun, they are too dangerous to be out in public. Either it is a right of a free man or it is not. |
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