The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari yesterday on whether a Florida man convicted of drug crimes could be forced to give up his firearms, Reuters' Lawrence Hurley reports. Tony Henderson, a former Border Patrol agent, wanted to sell the guns or transfer ownership to his wife, but the lower courts have ruled that the federal ban on felons possessing firearms terminates all their ownership rights.
Connecticut enacted the strongest gun laws in the country in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Now 23 attorney generals from other states are joining a challenge to the constitutionality of those laws, the Connecticut Law Tribune's Jay Stapleton reports. The coalition of attorney generals filed a similar amicus brief to challenge New York's gun laws.
"The coalition claims Connecticut's gun law violates the law established in [the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v.] Heller by banning versions of the AR–15 semi-automatic rifle, which is popular with hunters and sports shooters. It was also the type of weapon used in the Newtown shootings that killed 26 students and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012," Stapleton writes.
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