Second Circuit Upholds Firearm Serial Number Obliteration Law

A federal law barring possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number is constitutional, the Second Circuit ruled Monday.

New York man Adam Gomez’s assertion that it violates the constitutional and the 2022 Bruen ruling fails, since a weapon with a rubbed out serial number isn’t “a weapon in common use for lawful purpose,” said US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel.

Gomez also failed because he asserts a facial challenge to the law in question “but makes no attempt to show that it is unconstitutional as applied ...