THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Marijuana User Banned from Owning Firearms.
The Supreme Court has unanimously limited a federal law that banned "habitual" marijuana users from owning firearms, ruling it violated the Second Amendment.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision rejects a federal law that disarmed “habitual” marijuana users from owning firearms. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Supreme Court has unanimously limited a federal law that banned “habitual” marijuana users from owning firearms, ruling it violated the Second Amendment. DETAIL: On Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing the majority opinion of the Supreme Court , argued that the historical laws cited by the federal government to justify a ban were too dissimilar to modern restrictions. “The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways,” wrote Gorsuch. The Supreme Court’s opinion follows the…Open