Gun bans for drug users
Robert Allen Joshua v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Robert Allen Joshua challenged the federal ban on firearm possession by unlawful controlled-substance users under the Second Amendment.
- Who it affects
- The order ends Joshua’s request for Supreme Court review but does not decide whether the firearm ban is constitutional.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case (denied his petition for review) and did not decide whether the ban is constitutional.
The dispute concerns a federal law barring people who unlawfully use controlled substances 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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