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No 2nd Amendment right to pistol for foreign national

  • Daniel Fisher | Legal Newsline

(Legal Newsline) - An El Salvadorean citizen living in D.C. can be charged with illegal possession of a firearm under an ancient English principle allowing the disarming of people with loyalty to another government, a federal appeals court ruled, though it left unclear when, if ever, the phrase “the people” in the Second Amendment applies to resident aliens in the U.S.