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· 8/1/1995

James McGrath v. United States

Citations

  • 60 F.3d 1005
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 20467
  • 1995 WL 453399

How courts have described this case

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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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