A federal judge seemed frustrated Wednesday over the limited amount of historical evidence and expert analysis presented to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case seeking to overturn a federal law prohibiting people under indictment from buying firearms.

Under the U.S. Supreme Court’s new test for determining the constitutionality of gun regulations, the government must prove such laws are consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

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