New Orleans court upholds gun ban for migrants in US unlawfully

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: A U.S. appeals court rejected arguments by a Mexican man convicted of unlawfully having a handgun and upheld a federal law that bars migrants in the United States illegally from possessing guns.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said this week that the ban was still valid even after recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings expanding gun rights by requiring firearms restrict