United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-1557 PATRICK ATKINSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MERRICK GARLAND, Attorney General of the United States, and STEVEN DETTELBACH, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Defendants-Appellees. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 1:21-cv-291 — John Robert Blakey, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED NOVEMBER 8, 2022 — DECIDED JUNE 20, 2023 ____________________

Before SYKES, Chief Judge, and WOOD and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges. SCUDDER, Circuit Judge. Before us is a Second Amendment challenge to the federal felon-in-possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The appeal reaches us in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). That development is significant 2