A federal law that bars people who have been indicted from receiving firearms is lawful, even in light of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, a federal appeals court has concluded.
18 U.S. Code, Secton 922(n) prohibits people from receiving a gun or ammunition if they are under indictment for a crime punishable by more than one year in prison.
“We hold that the government has met its burden of showing that § 922(n) is relevantly similar to pretrial detention at the founding,” U.S. Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said in the unanimous opinion published on Jan. 13….