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Title: Gillespie v. City of Indianapolis
Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 09, 1999
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 77 KB

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By virtue of 1996 amendments to the Gun Control Act of 1968 which prohibit persons convicted of domestic violence offenses from possessing firearms in or affecting commerce, Jerald Gillespie can no longer carry a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. sec. 922(g)(9). As a result, he has lost his job as a police officer. Gillespie filed suit against the City of Indianapolis seeking to have the statute declared unconstitutional and his employment with the Indianapolis Police Department preserved. The United States intervened to defend the constitutionality of the statute. The district court dismissed Gillespies complaint, rejecting each of his constitutional arguments. Gillespie v. City of Indianapolis, 13 F. Supp. 2d 811 (S.D. Ind. 1998). Gillespie appeals, renewing his arguments that the statute violates the Tenth Amendment, the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendments due process clause, and the Second Amendment. We affirm.