Lawyer: Heller Says Felons Can Have Guns At Home For Protection

[whosyrdaddy]

Regardless of the justness of the law about felons being unable to possess guns, this sounds to me like a lawyer bringing up a case without much hope; fine for him, bad for his client.

Not just bad for his client, but bad for those people who actually have learned from their mistakes and probably could be trusted with a gun. Imagine how Heller would have been decided if the wrong person had brought it.

 

[brickeyee]

Heller noted that felons may - as in "we're not going to address it now, and for the moment will defer to established cultural norms, until a real case with that focus arises" - be restricted. That subject, along with many others, were relegated to rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

From DC v Heller, pg 2, footnote 2 and repeated almost exactly the same on pg. 54

The Court's opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill...

They did not decline to address the issue of felons, they clearly stated that the ruling was not "to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions."