Federal officials didn’t violate the constitution when they enforced a gun ban against an immigrant without legal status from Mexico, the U.S. appeals court in Chicago decided earlier this month.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman had dismissed an indictment against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores last year when she found the law he was charged with violated the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. But the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Coleman’s ruling on July 16 and sent the case back to her for reconsideration.

Carbajal-Flores, 33, was arrested by Chicago police officers after he allegedly fired seven shots at a passing car on June 1, 2020 , in Little Village during looting related to protests over George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minnesota.

The gunfire,

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