Father Who Didn’t Pay Child Support May Be Denied Gun Rights

The contempt conviction and four-year sentence a Maryland father received for not paying court-ordered child support allowed the state to deny him the right to have a gun and charge him as a felon in possession, Maryland’s high court said.

Robert L. Fooks said that his common law conviction wasn’t a felony and that he therefore couldn’t be charged as a felon in possession. But Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader said June 6 for the Maryland Supreme Court that the state law that required disarming Fooks passed muster under the US Supreme Court’s current Second Amendment analysis.

The applicable test, ...