Four years ago in Laredo, Tex., firearms dealer Thomas Lamar Bean decided that a night out in Mexico would be the perfect way to cap off a day at a gun show. But by the time it was over, he had landed in jail and his livelihood had been destroyed. Bean was out of the gun business because U.S. law prohibits anyone with a felony conviction, even a foreign one, from obtaining a firearms license. Wednesday, however, Bean`s lawyer will tell the U.S. Supreme Court that a federal court should be able to grant Bean the license that the ATF could not.
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