The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to limit the federal government’s ability to ban drug users from possessing firearms.
During oral arguments, a majority of the justices criticized the government’s prosecution of Ali Danial Hemani, who was found with a gun and admitted using marijuana. He was charged under a law prohibiting anyone who is “an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” from owning a firearm.
The Trump administration had asked the justices to overturn a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found the law infringed on Second Amendment rights.
