United States v. Gary Hancock

How courts have described this case

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• finding no equal-protection violation despite fact that a statute could, in some hypothetical circumstances, “treat [ ] misdemeanants more harshly than it treats some felons”
• characterizing Lambert as a “narrow” exception to the rule that “ignorance of the law is no excuse”
• “[B]y committing] the domestic violence offense, [appellant] removed himself from the class of ordinary and innocent citizens who would expect no special restrictions on the possession of a firearm.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).