Gun rights after felony convictions
Charles Randolph Greene v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Charles Randolph Greene challenged a federal law that bars people with felony convictions from possessing firearms for life, arguing that the ban violates the Second Amendment generally and in his case.
- Who it affects
- Greene received no Supreme Court decision on whether the ban is unconstitutional generally or as applied to him.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case (denied his petition), so it did not decide the constitutional question.
Federal law bars people with felony convictions from possessing firearms, and Greene challenged that lifetime ban under the Second Amendment.
Question presented
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment, either facially or as applied to the Petitioner?
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