The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes a 15-year minimum sentence for gun crimes on those with three violent felony or drug convictions.
United States Supreme Court justices in their official portrait: (from L) Sonia Sotomayor, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan, on Oct. 7, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images
The Supreme Court weighed on Nov. 27 how sentences under a federal three-strikes gun law should be imposed on defendants previously convicted of violent felonies or major drug offenses.
Federal law prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms.
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