NRA joined SAF on an amicus brief in Cordova urging the Fifth Circuit en banc after vacating the panel to limit lifetime federal firearms bans to dangerous persons. They say history disarmed only the violent or government threats not all felons, militia statutes demanded fit men possess weapons without excepting earlier nonviolent crimes, and some laws protected criminals' arms from seizure. They reject founding death-penalty eligibility as the test as many felonies were not capital and sentence completers often still bore arms under militia acts, unlike other rights, officials saying nonviolent felons should retain it after paying their debt.