http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/19/us-appeals-court-deems-gun-law-unconstitutional/A federal appeals court in Cincinnati deemed a law unconstitutional that kept a Michigan man who was committed to a mental institution from owning a gun.
The three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that a federal ban on gun ownership for those who have been committed to a mental institution violated the Second Amendment rights of 73-year-old Clifford Charles Tyler.
Tyler attempted to buy a gun and was denied on the grounds that he had been committed to a mental institution in 1986 after suffering emotional problems stemming from a divorce. He was only in there for a month.
Tyler?s lawyer, Lucas McCarthy, hopes that the ruling would have a ?significant impact on the jurisprudence in the area of gun rights.?
