Gun rights for drug users
Buay Kong Chuol v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Buay Kong Chuol challenged the federal law barring unlawful users of controlled substances and people with drug addiction from possessing firearms, arguing that it violates the Second Amendment.
- Who it affects
- Chuol received no Supreme Court review, and the Court made no constitutional ruling in his case.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case, so it did not decide whether the law is constitutional.
The dispute concerns a federal law that bars unlawful users of controlled substances and people with drug addiction from possessing firearms.
Question presented
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)—which permanently prohibits all unlawful users of controlled substances and all drug addicts from possessing firearms, without any pre-deprivation process or individualized finding of dangerousness—is consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and this Court’s historical-tradition test established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, United States v. Rahimi, and United States v. Hemani.
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