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3d Cir. rejects challenge to fed. ban on firearm possession by people who have in the past been adjudicated mentally ill or committed to a mental institution.

Holds that passage of time and rehabilitation cannot restore lost Second Amendment rights. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/17301… #RKBA
At the end of its opinion the court notes that it is not perpetuating the stigma around mental illness, but does not consider whether the historical prohibition on firearm possession was animated by that stigma.
And it's unfortunate to see how the Court views the protection afforded by the Second Amendment as a good that can be forfeited rather than an always-existing prohibition on government conduct.

It would never adjudicate First Amendment speech cases that way.
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