Legal Opinion
Jefferson Schrader v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 11, 2013No. 11-5352PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
Due to a conviction some forty years ago for common-law misdemeanor assault and battery for which he served no jail time, plaintiff Jefferson Wayne Schrader, now a sixty-four-year-old veteran, is, by virtue of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), barred for life from ever possessing a firearm. Together with the Second Amendment Foundation, Schrader contends that section 922(g)(1) is inapplicable to common-law misdemean-ants as a class and, alternatively, that application of the statute to this class of individuals violates the Second…
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