Court Rejects Challenge to Gun Ban When Facing Felony Charge

A federal law barring individuals indicted for a felony from traveling across state lines with a firearm is constitutional as applied to an Arizona man, the Fourth Circuit said Friday.

Founding-era surety laws are sufficiently analogous to support the limited period of time the statute disarmed Brandon Jackson while he was under the felony indictment, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in an opinion.

Brandon Jackson was indicted under an Arizona state law that bans the manufacturing, transporting, or possession of short-barreled rifles. While the charge was pending, Jackson drove to the East Coast where ...