United States v. Pruess, No. 11-5127 (4th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant, a convicted felon, pled guilty to possession of ammunition. On appeal, he contended that application of the felon-in-possession prohibition to him violated the Constitution. The court held that the application of the felon-in-possession prohibition to allegedly non-violent felons like defendant did not violate the Second Amendment. The court also held that defendant's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated where there was a rational relation between the felon-in-possession prohibition as applied to a collector of dangerous, often stolen weapons and explosives who had repeatedly and flagrantly ignored the law. Accordingly, the court found defendant's claims on appeal to be without merit and affirmed the judgment.
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