Second Amendment Roundup: No Protection for Heroin Trafficker
Second Amendment Roundup: No Protection for Heroin Trafficker Fifth Circuit reaffirms Rahimi’s “dangerousness” standard in § 922(a)(1) case Stephen Halbrook | 6.7.2026 10:27 PM On June 2, the Fifth Circuit decided United States v. In the same case, he had been convicted of a conspiracy count to possess stolen things, and in another case, burglary and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. By contrast, predicate offenses involving a dangerous or violent crime justified disarmament.
- ▪Second Amendment Roundup: No Protection for Heroin Trafficker Fifth Circuit reaffirms Rahimi’s “dangerousness” standard in § 922(a)(1) case Stephen Halbrook | 6.7.2026 10:27 PM On June 2, the Fifth Circuit decided United States v.
- ▪In the same case, he had been convicted of a conspiracy count to possess stolen things, and in another case, burglary and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
- ▪By contrast, predicate offenses involving a dangerous or violent crime justified disarmament.
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Second Amendment Roundup: No Protection for Heroin Trafficker Fifth Circuit reaffirms Rahimi’s “dangerousness” standard in § 922(a)(1) case Stephen Halbrook | 6.7.2026 10:27 PM On June 2, the Fifth Circuit decided United States v. Squire, which posed "a novel question about whether the Second Amendment protects a convicted drug trafficker from being dispossessed of a firearm inside his home based on our Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." As Senior Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote in the opinion, "our historical tradition supports disarming drug traffickers based on their dangerousness…." Suspecting him of involvement in a shooting in New Orleans, police secured a warrant to search the home of Curtis Squire, where they found a handgun.
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