Federal Circuit
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Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
10th Circuit Hears Second Amendment Challenge to Gun Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an order and judgment in United States v. Salazar, addressing a constitutional challenge to the federal law prohibiting undocumented immigrants from possessing firearms. Defendant Gerson Armando Romero Salazar appealed his conviction after unsuccessfully arguing the statute violates the Second Amendment.
•Gerson Armando Romero Salazar was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A) for being an undocumented immigrant in possession of a firearm
•The defendant challenged the federal statute as facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
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