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  • When may a felon, who is generally barred from possessing a gun, get it to break up a fight?

    07/28/2014 3:46:08 AM PDT · by right-wing agnostic · 24 replies
    The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | July 23, 2014 | Eugene Volokh
    From yesterday’s United States v. Cooney (8th Cir. July 22, 2014): As a convicted felon, [Larry] Cooney is prohibited from possessing firearms. In 2011, Cooney lived in a duplex with his fifty-year-old brother Warren Cooney (Warren) and his brother’s family. Warren had a long history of health problems, including two heart attacks. On October 27, 2011, Warren and nineteen-year-old Dwight Avance began to argue in the Cooney duplex. As the argument escalated and became physical, the two men took the fight outside, while Cooney remained within the residence. Once outside, Warren and Avance wrestled on muddy ground, near which several...