Convicted securities fraud exec files suit over gun rights

By Chris Eger

Gregory Reyes, in this file photo shown leaving the federal building in San Francisco in 2009 with his wife, is seeking his firearms rights restored. (Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP)
The former CEO of a tech company has filed suit in federal court arguing a ban on felons possessing guns should not apply to his crime.
Gregory Reyes, the first person convicted for fraudulent backdating corporate stock options, contends in a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that his ban on gun ownership over business-related crimes is not in line with federal law.
The former CEO of Brocade Communications was indicted in 2006 on a series of conspiracy and fraud charges that eventually ended with 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine and well as settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Following his release from Taft Correctional Institution in 2011, a “Club Fed” prison named to Forbes list of “America’s 10 Cushiest Prisons,” Reyes has completed his probation and not been charged with another crime.
However, Reyes sought to buy a handgun with two different firearms vendors this month and was told that his history of being convicted of a white collar federal felony bars him from a

Source: Guns.com