Gun rights after nonviolent convictions
John Miguel Swan v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- John Miguel Swan asks the Supreme Court to review his conviction under a federal law barring firearm possession by people with felony convictions.
- Who it affects
- Swan’s Tenth Circuit judgment remains in place, but the Supreme Court did not decide whether the Second Amendment bars his conviction.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He argues that the Second Amendment bars applying the law to him because his prior qualifying convictions were nonviolent.
Federal law bars firearm possession by people with felony convictions; Swan argued it should not apply to him because his qualifying convictions were nonviolent.
Question presented
Whether the Second Amendment prohibits the conviction of, and judgment against, petitioner for violating 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) given the nonviolent character of his prior predicate convictions.
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