Jefferson Schrader v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “other courts of appeal have uniformly rejected the argument that the actual sentence imposed is controlling for purposes of triggering the federal firearms ban”
• observing that veteran convicted 40 years previously who received no jail time and had no later encounters with law enforcement might be able to succeed with as-applied challenge
• observing that veteran convicted 40 years previously who received no jail time and had no later encounters with law enforcement might be able to succeed with as-applied challenge
• noting that “the commonsense meaning of the term ‘punishable’” in a federal firearms ban “refers to any punishment capable of being imposed, not necessarily a punishment specified by statute”
• noting that the federal firearms ban “remain[s] vulnerable” to an as-applied, second amendment challenge brought by a misdemeanant who has become a “ ‘law-abiding, responsible citizen[ ]’ ” (quoting District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 635 (2008)
• indicating willingness to consider an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to § 922(g)(1) but concluding it had not been raised properly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).