US gun ban doesn't apply to city domestic abuse laws
US gun ban doesn't apply to city domestic abuse laws
- The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling came in the case of Alexander Pauler, a Wichita man who was accused of violating a federal law that prohibits someone from owning a gun if they've been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence "under federal, state or tribal law."
- The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling came in the case of Alexander Pauler, a Wichita man who was accused of violating a federal law that prohibits someone from owning a gun if they've been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence "under federal, state or tribal law."
Prosecutors
said Pauler couldn't have a gun because he had been convicted of
misdemeanor domestic violence under a Wichita ordinance. But a
three-judge panel of the Denver-based appeals court on Tuesday
unanimously found that the federal gun law doesn't apply when the
underlying domestic abuse violation is under a municipal ordinance.