Rickey I. Kanter pleaded guilty to one count of federal mail fraud for falsely representing that his company’s therapeutic shoe inserts were Medicare-approved and for billing Medicare on that basis.
So Rickey Kanter became a
non violent felon because of this (falsely representing that his shoe inserts were Medicare Approved via a mail flyer).
(but) As a convicted felon, he was categorically prohibited by federal law and Wisconsin law from possessing a firearm. Kanter argued that the Second Amendment did not allow those laws to be applied against him, (but) the panel majority rejected his claim.
re: Amy Coney Barrett
Based on her extensive marshalling and analysis of the historical evidence,
Judge Barrett concludes that the Second Amendment leaves legislatures the power to prohibit
dangerous people from possessing guns but that (all) felons do not lose their Second Amendment rights solely because of their status as felons. The federal government and the state of Wisconsin failed to show that
disarming all nonviolent felons is carefully tailored to the goal of protecting public safety, nor did they show that mail fraud is substantially related to violent behavior.
Barrett argued that the state "also failed to demonstrate that anything else in Kanter’s history or characteristics made him likely to misuse firearms. Therefore,
they could not bar him from possessing a firearm."
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