Married guy with 3 kids and a household income of around $300 a week underreports that income to get food stamps. In 1995. Gets 3 years' probation. Otherwise has a clean record. Can that constitutionally bar him from owning a firearm today? Third Circuit (2023, en banc): Whoa, that's a Second Amendment violation. Supreme Court (after Rahimi): Give that another look. Third Circuit: (2024, en banc): Yeah, still a violation. Concurrence 1: Natural law is totally rad. Concurrence 2: Food stamps, seriously? Concurrence 3: I guess this guy can have a gun, but just about no other law breaker. Concurrence 4: Maybe just no guns for the maximum sentence? Dissent: The guy dissed the Sovereign and not part of "the people."
The case is Range v. Att’y Gen. U.S., No. 21-02835 (3d Cir. Dec. 23, 2024).