The Supreme Court on Monday rejected requests by three convicted criminals to overturn lower court rulings that found they could legally be barred from owning firearms. In an unsigned order, the nation’s top court declined to hear appeals from Raymond Holloway Jr., Lisa Folajtar, and Kenneth Flick, leaving lower court rulings against them intact. The trio, all convicts, had asked the nation’s top court to consider whether certain felons should be prohibited from possessing or owning guns. At issue was the court’s 2008 decision in “District of Columbia v. Heller.” In a narrow 5-4 opinion then, the court found the Second Amendment “protects an individual’s right to possess firearms” and that Washington’s “total ban on handguns, as well as its requirement that firearms in the home be kept nonfunctional even when necessary for self-defense, violated that right.” However, justices also stated that the Second Amendment right “is not unlimited” and …
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