| On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit considered a Florida man’s effort to overturn his conviction for possessing a machine gun. The man contends that “he merely had a [machine gun] conversion device attached to an otherwise legal Glock handgun,” according to Courthouse News Service. “Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Silverberg, representing the federal government, argued the appellate court only needs to look at the landmark 2008 Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which found a ban on the possession of handguns unconstitutional but allowed for the prohibition of ‘dangerous and unusual’ firearms,” contending that the Florida man’s gun fits that category. |
