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ATF’s draft revised Form 4473 would cut the firearms transaction form from seven pages to four while changing several key buyer questions. The proposal affects sex identification, marijuana language, straw purchase warnings, firearm type entries, and possible non-over-the-counter transfers.
The Supreme Court’s review of United States v. Hemani could determine whether the federal firearm ban for marijuana users under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) has any real historical basis. The case puts one of the most outdated and contested prohibitions in federal gun law squarely in front of the justices.
March For Our Lives is backing the federal ban on gun ownership for regular marijuana users as the Supreme Court weighs United States v. Hemani.
The justices’ questions today suggest the federal government’s ban on gun ownership by marijuana users is on shaky constitutional ground.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the respondent in United States v. Hemani, a case challenging the federal lifetime ban on firearm possession for marijuana users.
The Trump-ATF issued an interim rule that quietly but significantly narrows how the federal government defines who is prohibited from owning or purchasing a firearm due to drug use.
A coalition of gun rights organizations has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the justices to grant certiorari in a case known as Harris v. United States, which challenges the federal ban on firearms possession by marijuana users.
The case arises out of Texas and involves defendant Ali Danial Hemani, a dual U.S./Pakistan citizen. According to court filings and news reports, the FBI searched his family home and found a 9mm handgun, marijuana, and cocaine.
“If a person chooses to legally use medical marijuana it should not automatically translate to surrendering their Second Amendment rights. We look forward to fighting this restriction and vindicating the rights of those who…”
A three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the law banning the users of marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
The court ruled that Florida medical marijuana patients ‘cannot be labeled as dangerous people solely due to their medicinal marijuana use,’ striking down the government’s attempt to strip away their gun rights.”
Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court Must Decide if Pot Use Made Defendant Dangerous Enough to Justify Disarmament and Gun Charges…
Trump’s Solicitor General is asking for more time on whether to appeal a case that could overturn the federal gun ban on marijuana users. Courts are increasingly skeptical that the ban is constitutional.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the conviction of a man under a federal law that prohibits firearm possession by one who is “an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”…
A judge in Texas has dismissed with prejudice a case against a man arrested with marijuana and firearms, citing Second Amendment concerns.
Hunter Biden avoided the consequences of a criminal justice system that punishes people for conduct that violates no one’s rights and compounds that punishment when they demand the trial…
In 1990, when Trump was famous as a billionaire New York developer rather than a politician, he called the war on drugs “a joke” and recommended legalization instead.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gun control regime by ruling the law banning marijuana users from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
Resident Biden, citing old-timey “gateway drug” concerns, has steadfastly resisted attempts to resolve this conflict by repealing the federal ban on marijuana.
NY state has made it impossible to exercise the GOD-given right to keep & bear arms. Now we see the same strategy being applied to Marijuana.
Our lawsuit raises very legitimate issues for a growing number of law-abiding citizens whose Second Amendment rights are unquestionably and arbitrarily infringed upon…
An ATF IOI ordered a gun dealer to halt a pistol sale because he believed the purchaser possibly smelled of marijuana.
Plaintiff Greene currently abstains from purchasing or possessing firearms, being forced to choose between using a medicine or the exercise of his 2nd Amendment rights!?
A federal lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland, the heads of the FBI & ATF, and the U.S. Government, challenging the federal prohibition on gun ownership by medical marijuana users.
The case, United States v. Erik Matthew Harris, is one of many court cases challenging the federal prohibition on marijuana users possessing guns.
Drug use was not criminalized until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, post-Bruen interpretations might deem this section unconstitutional.
Eliminating criminal penalties for drug possession, does not require tolerating conduct that offends or alarms people with equal right to use sidewalks and parks.
Although the HHS-recommended change would benefit researchers and the cannabis industry, it would not resolve the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.
The Court found the ban on possession of firearms by people who use illegal drugs to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Something like 12 million drug users own guns, making them guilty of a federal felony that is currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
