Nonviolent Convicts Can Own Guns, U.S. Court Rules.
A federal appeals court ruled that a man who committed a nonviolent crime cannot be legally prevented from owning a firearm, overturning decisions by lower courts that had prevented Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania resident who had sued the state after being blocked from buying a shotgun for hunting and self-protection over a conviction for lying on a benefits application in the 1990s. The decision is a potential setback to gun regulations spurred by a Supreme Court ruling last year that vastly expanded the right to bear arms.