Abortion, campus sexual assault, Second Amendment: 5 notable Amy Coney Barrett cases

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Monday, September 28, 2020

Second Amendment

A selection of Glock pistols are seen for sale at the Pony Express Firearms shop in Parker, Colorado December 7, 2015. | (Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking)

In the case of Ricky I. Kanter v. William P. Barr, a three judge panel of the Seventh Circuit weighed on whether an individual convicted of mail fraud could legally own a firearm.

A majority of the panel ruled in favor of a Wisconsin law banning convicted felons from owning a gun, but Barrett authored a lengthy dissent taking with the broadness of the regulation.

“Absent evidence that Kanter would pose a risk to the public safety if he possessed a gun, the governments cannot permanently deprive him of his right to keep and bear arms,” wrote Barrett.

“And while both Wisconsin and the United States have an unquestionably strong interest in protecting the public from gun violence, they have failed to show, by either logic or data … that disarming Kanter substantially advances that interest.”