Felon Gun Ban Survives Constitutional Challenge at 11th Circuit

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said that it was prevented by its own precedent from declaring unconstitutional a federal ban on felons possessing firearms, despite a Supreme Court ruling creating a new test for Second Amendment cases.

The three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based court on Tuesday denied Andre Dubois’s bid to declare the law unconstitutional. In an opinion authored by Chief Judge William Pryor and joined by Judges Robin Rosenbaum and Nancy Abudu, the court said that a 2010 circuit ruling upholding the law remains in place “until it is overruled or undermined to the point ...