Third Circuit· 3/4/2011

United States v. Barton

Citations

633 F.3d 168
2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 4111
2011 WL 753859

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concluding it is well established that “felons are more likely to commit violent crimes than are other law-abiding citizens”
finding § 922(g)(l)’s felon-in-possession ban facially constitutional but subject to as-applied challenges
overruled on other grounds by Binderup v. Attorney General , 836 F.3d 336 (3d Cir. 2016)
“By describing the felon disarmament ban as ‘presumptively’ lawful, the Supreme Court implied that the presumption may be rebutted.” (citation omitted)
“[O]ffenses relating to drug trafficking and receiving stolen weapons are closely related to violent crime.”
“the Supreme Court’s discussion in Heller of the categorical exceptions to the Second Amendment was not abstract and hypothetical; it was outcome-determinative”

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Judges: Hardiman, Greenaway, Nygaard

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