Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law; former appellate attorney with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas. See profile here: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/law/faculty/b_beck.php
On February 8, 2023, the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in United States v. Quiroz to consider whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n)—receipt of a firearm while under felony indictment—can withstand a Second Amendment facial challenge. Below, Judge Counts in the Western District of Texas had dismissed the government’s indictment, under Bruen, holding that “unlike the […]
