Federal Judge Who Struck Down Felony Indictment Gun Ban Upholds Conviction Ban

The federal prohibition on convicted felons possessing guns is in line with the Second Amendment. That’s the conclusion reached by the judge who recently ruled the ban on those under felony indictment receiving guns was not.

Judge David Counts of the U.S. District of Western Texas found that contrary to the indictment ban, the convicted felon ban survived scrutiny under the Supreme Court’s new Bruen standard.

“Bruen did shake up the legal landscape,” Counts wrote in his ruling. “And the Court believes that faithfully following Bruen’s new framework casts doubt on some firearm regulations. But the regulation in this case is not one of them.”