United States v. Johnny Lee Wallace

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in order to secure the safety of the individual and all others present, a police officer may conduct a stop and frisk of an individual when he has a reasonable suspicion that the individual is about to commit suicide and that the individual possesses a firearm
• “[S]ection 922(g) reaches only those firearms that traveled in interstate or foreign commerce and is thus constitutional
• officers justified in detaining and patting down defendant where they had been informed that he possessed a weapon and was threatening to commit suicide; leaving scene would have been poor police work
• “[T]he words ‘affecting commerce’ are jurisdictional words of art, typically signaling a congressional intent to exercise its Commerce Clause power broadly, perhaps as far as the Constitution permits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).