The chief judge of the District of Rhode Island, John J. McConnell, Jr., made the original ruling in the case at the district court level.
John McConnell is an Odiousbama appointee who slithered in with a 50-44 vote (apparently too slimy for even our Assistant Democrats in the Senate):
The Washington Examiner, a conservative magazine, wrote an editorial critical of John McConnell for making almost $700,000 in campaign contributions to Democrats by him and his wife since 1993. The editorial in the Washington Examiner claimed he was trying to buy a federal judgeship through targeted contributions.
Some Republican senators, including John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell, questioned his ability to act impartially as a judge.
Carrie Severino: Far-left Obama-appointed judge [John McConnell] launches political attack on conservative Federalist Society
May 23, 2020
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3847863/posts
Then the gun-grab got bounced up to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, where another crew of Lefties were waiting in the woodpile - a three-judge panel consisting of David J. Barron, ANOTHER Odiousbama appointee, Bruce M. Selya, a Senior Moment Reagan judge in his late eighties, and lastly, Grabby Poppy's [George H.W. Bush] gift that keeps on giving, retired Supreme Fart "justice" David Souter, who likes to keep his hand in the game by taking a few cases for the First Circuit every year.
The three clowns ruled unanimously that the gun-grab was okey-dokey by them.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/19-1764/19-1764-2020-03-13.html
All four of these black-robed jokers have now been taken behind the woodshed by the Supremes for a 9-0 thrashing.
There's your "non-political" Federal judiciary, John "Chief Clown" Roberts...
Odiousbama = OBuggery!
Good digging!