U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Beers v. Attorney Gen. United States
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- Type
- Opinion of the Court
- Author
- Jane Richards Roth
- Filed
- June 20, 2019
- Case
- Beers v. Attorney Gen. United States
- Case status
- Decided
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ROTH, Circuit Judge *152INTRODUCTION Federal law prohibits the possession of firearms by anyone who has previously been adjudicated as mentally ill or committed to a mental institution. Bradley Beers challenges this law on the ground that, as applied to him, it violates the Second Amendment. Mentally ill indivi…
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