Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Felons Possessing Firearms

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Second Amendment right to bear arms does not apply to felons, moving away from a  U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that guaranteed this right to every American for self-defense. It also contradicts a ruling in May by the Ninth Circuit that non-violent, convicted felons can own guns. The First Circuit’s judgment was issued as part of a case in which the defendant, Carl Langston, argued that his conviction for possessing a gun violated his Second Amendment rights. Langston was arrested in February 2021 at a bar in Maine after people complained to police that he was acting aggressively....