Ninth Circuit: Felon Has ‘Right to Possess Firearm for Self-Defense’

Breitbart ^ | 05/10/2024 | AWR HAWKINS

[ChicagoConservative27]

On Thursday a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that Steven Duarte, a felon, has a “right to possess a firearm for self-defense.”

Courthouse News Service noted Duarte has five felony convictions and was a member of a street gang in Los Angeles.

The decision upholding Duarte’s gun rights was split, with George W. Bush appointee Carlos Bea and Donald Trump appointee Lawrence VanDyke deciding in the majority.

Bea wrote the majority opinion, noted the panel tested the prohibition against felons possessing guns in light of Bruen (2022) and found the government did not have a sufficient substantiation.

Bruen requires that gun control align with historical tradition and the intent of America’s founders. Bea and VanDyke did not believe the blanket prohibition against felons possessing firearms survived scrutiny.

[imardmd1]

Which I believe we do have in every state.

Are the soft-on-crime DAs fully enforcing it?

[Zhang Fei]

[My dad moved from an 88 to a ‘73 Imperial. I had to use that for my first driving test. Like parallel parking a house.

A friend won the local demolition derby with it years later.]

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That’s the thing about these classics. Familiarity and age breed contempt. Rust (and Big 3 unreliability) apart, it’s one reason you don’t see many of them on the roads any more. Takes decades and scarcity before these classic designs are treated with the respect they deserve. Contempt morphs into reverence.