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"The Constitution does not give anyone the right to be armed while committing a felony, or even to have guns in the next room for emergency use should suppliers, customers, or the police threaten a dealer's stash."

"The Constitution does not give anyone the right to be armed while committing a felony, or even to have guns in the next room for emergency use should suppliers, customers, or the police threaten a dealer's stash." So writes Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in an opinion issued today.

The opinion rejects a home-based drug dealer's argument that his Second Amendment right to self-defense should result in overturning his conviction on a charge of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).