CBS SF January 8, 2019
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld a U.S. law that makes it a crime for people who are illegally in the United States to possess a gun.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of a San Jose man, Victor Manuel Torres, who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2005 at the age of 20.
In 2014, he was found to have a loaded revolver in his backpack after he was arrested in Los Gatos on suspicion of trying to sell a stolen bicycle. Torres was convicted in federal court in San Jose and sentenced to two years and three months in prison for being an illegal immigrant in possession of gun.
In his appeal, Torres claimed the federal law violated his constitutional Second Amendment right to possess firearms.
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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/08/9th-circuit-court-upholds-ban-gun-possession-undocumented-immigrants/