10th Circuit Says SCOTUS Didn’t Invalidate Gun Bans for Felons

A recent US Supreme Court ruling clarifying the right to carry guns in public didn’t overrule a Tenth Circuit decision upholding the constitutionality of the ban on firearm possession by felons.

The Supreme Court, in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, “created a new test for determining the scope of the Second Amendment,” the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said in an opinion by Judge Robert E. Bacharach.

The high court, however, “didn’t appear to question the constitutionality of longstanding prohibitions on possession of firearms by convicted felons,” Bacharach said. “If anything, Bruen ...