The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has previously said that a Pennsylvania man's guilty plea for falsifying his income on a food stamp application shouldn't have led to the loss of his Second Amendment rights, arguing that the current federal statute is unconstitutional, at least in some circumstances. 

Now another Pennsylvania resident is hoping to use the decision in Range v. Garland to clear him of charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, but the Department of Justice argued on Wednesday that there are significant differences between the two men.