· 8/1/1995
James McGrath v. United States
Citations
- 60 F.3d 1005
- 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 20467
- 1995 WL 453399
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- holding that felon whose civil rights were not revoked could not argue that they had been restored
- explaining that, in enacting § 921(a)(20), “Congress sought to accommodate a state’s judgment that a particular person or class of persons is, despite a prior conviction, sufficiently trustworthy to possess firearms”
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Judges: Oakes, McLaughlin, Leval
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