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The Supreme Court will decide if habitual marijuana use justifies federal gun ownership bans amid conflicts with state laws and evolving cannabis policies.
- On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will decide the constitutionality of a federal law barring firearm possession by anyone who is an "unlawful user" or addicted to controlled substances in United States v. Ali Danial Hemani.
- The Fifth Circuit ruled that §922 violates the Second Amendment unless applied only when a person is under influence, while DoJ Trump administration lawyers appealed, arguing the ban protects public safety like limits on "habitual drunkards".
- Federal agents found a Glock 9mm pistol, 60 grams of marijuana, and 4.7 grams of cocaine during a 2022 Denton County search, and Hemani admitted regular marijuana use before his §922 indictment.
- Until the Court decides, federal rules mean firearm dealers must deny purchases to anyone admitting unlawful drug use on the ATF Form 4473, while critics warn this could affect medical cannabis patients and state-legal marijuana users.
- The case follows the Court's Bruen framework and is the latest post-Bruen Second Amendment test; justices are expected to hear arguments and issue a decision by next year.
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Why the White House is behind a rare Supreme Court push to limit gun ownership
As an increasing number of states provide Americans access to legal cannabis, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to debate one of the less-obvious but hugely impactful implications of this country’s growing legalization movement: gun rights. On Monday, the high court announced it would hear arguments in U.S. v. Ali Danial Hemani. This narcotics-related case could upend firearm access for millions at the request of the Trump administration. It’s a rar…
The Gun Rights of Drug Users Are Up for Grabs at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a Second Amendment case that challenged a federal law forbidding drug use by gun owners, revisiting the history-and-tradition test in one of the most widely invoked gun restrictions in the country.The case, United States v. Hemani, is the second major Second Amendment case that the justices have taken up this term. Earlier this month the court also agreed to review a Hawaii law on the de…
Supreme Court will weigh gun restrictions for drug users
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would consider a Second Amendment challenge to the federal law barring drug users and addicts from having a gun, in a case testing the statute used to convict President Joe Biden’s son Hunter last year.
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US Supreme Court to weigh law barring drug users from owning guns
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration in a case out of Texas to defend a federal law that bars users of illegal drugs from owning guns — one of the statutes under which former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was charged in 2023.
U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gun ownership by drug abusers
Read: 2 min The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a challenge to a federal law prohibiting abusers of illegal drugs from owning firearms. The conservative-dominated court will decide whether the law violates the Second Amendment, which protects the constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms. The statute was used to convict Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, on gun charges last year before he was pardoned by the then-president.…
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