Judges on a Philadelphia-based federal appeals court splintered Tuesday over the U.S. Supreme Court’s history-driven test for gun laws in a ruling that rejected the government’s application of a federal statute barring a non-violent felon from firearm possession.

In an 11-4 ruling on Tuesday featuring three dissents and two concurrences, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected a law that prevented a Pennsylvania man, Bryan Range, from owning a gun after he pleaded guilty in 1995 to welfare fraud. The ruling creates a circuit split on the issue, one dissenting judge said.

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