Gun rights after felony convictions
Joshua Ryan Burns v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Joshua Ryan Burns asked whether a federal firearm law violates the Second Amendment and whether Congress’s commerce power supports the law generally or as applied to his in-state firearm possession.
- Who it affects
- The denial ended Burns’s request for Supreme Court review, but left both questions undecided in this proceeding.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case (denied review) and did not decide either question.
Burns raised two separate challenges to the same federal firearm law: one under the Second Amendment and one under Congress’s commerce power.
Question presented
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment on its face? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceed Congress’s authority under the Commerce Clause on its face or as applied to Petitioner’s intrastate possession of a firearm?
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