Fifth Circuit Rules Suppressors Are Second Amendment Arms, Splits Circuits
A Fifth Circuit panel ruled June 18 that suppressors are protected Second Amendment arms, directly splitting with the Ninth Circuit's opposite holding earlier this month.
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