Gun rights for drug users
Jersom Andu Mena v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Jersom Andu Mena challenges a federal law that bars people who unlawfully use controlled drugs or are addicted to drugs from possessing firearms.
- Who it affects
- Mena will not receive Supreme Court review of his challenge; the constitutional question remains undecided in this proceeding.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He argues that the ban violates the Second Amendment because it applies without a prior hearing or an individual finding that someone is dangerous.
Federal law bars people who unlawfully use controlled drugs or are addicted to drugs 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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