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7th Circuit Court: Illegal Immigrants Have Second Amendment Rights Too

7th Circuit Court: Illegal Immigrants Have Second Amendment Rights Too by AWR Hawkins In a case regarding a specific gun control law which bans “unauthorized aliens” (illegal immigrants) from possessing firearms in the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit did the work of a contortionist by upholding the law while also pointing out that they “see no principled way to carve out the Second Amendment and say that the unauthorized (or maybe all noncitizens) are excluded.” In a word—illegal immigrants have Second Amendment rights too. The case was titled United States v. Meza-Rodriguez, and the decision… View Article