Supreme Court refuses to review gun rights for nonviolent felons

Independent, UK -   The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to expand gun rights further, rejecting a challenge to a federal law that prohibits individuals with serious criminal convictions, including nonviolent felons, from owning firearms.

The justices opted not to hear an appeal from Melynda Vincent, a Utah woman, against a lower court's decision. That ruling affirmed that the gun restriction did not infringe upon her Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms" under the US Constitution. The prohibition on gun possession by nonviolent felons is enshrined in the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Vincent, a single mother residing in Utah, was barred from firearm ownership following her 2008 felony conviction for bank fraud, specifically cashing a fraudulent cheque worth approximately $500.