Supreme Court sides with Texas man who challenged law barring drug users from having guns
The ruling narrows the federal ban on gun possession by drug users and rejects the government’s claim that marijuana use alone makes someone dangerous.
- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the federal government cannot ban individuals from owning firearms solely because they are habitual or occasional marijuana users.
- The decision in United States v. Ali Danial Hemani struck down the application of a federal law which makes it a crime for an "unlawful user of... a controlled substance" to possess a firearm.
- Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the court's opinion, writing that prosecuting a Texas man who kept a handgun in his home while admitting to regular marijuana use is inconsistent with the Second Amendment.
- The ruling is legally narrow and does not protect active impairment; the Court emphasized that while the government can still criminalize possessing a firearm while actively intoxicated, it cannot disarm citizens based strictly on off-duty, habitual consumption.
- The case originated after the FBI found a handgun at Hemani’s Texas home in 2022. The ruling directly impacts the legal status of millions of state-legal cannabis users and involves the exact same statute used to convict Hunter Biden.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday limited the application of a decades-old federal law that bars firearms possession by certain drug users, rejecting a position taken by President Donald Trump’s administration that had threatened the gun rights of millions of Americans who use marijuana and own firearms. The post Supreme Court limits ban on gun ownership by marijuana users appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
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