One of the areas of Second Amendment law that is a bit of a gray area is the extent to which people retain their Second Amendment freedoms after being convicted.
It clearly is not absolute, as someone who is given life without parole for a first-degree triple homicide is not going to be able to own guns in their prison cell.
But when it comes to people convicted of lesser offenses, and who have finished serving their time, there is some legal gray area, and it continues to be fleshed out in court cases.
That leaves the door open for people who do not like guns to pass onerous laws that make it nearly impossible, or even totally impossible, for someone who has ever been convicted of a crime to own a gun.
But thankfully, an appeals court just handed down a ruling that struck back at one of these laws and perhaps will set a precedent for other courts to follow.
According to The Reload, “Given a second bite at the apple, the Third Circuit has once again ruled that a Pennsylvania man can own firearms despite his felony-level conviction.”