Gun rights after drug convictions
Storball v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Major Storball asks the Supreme Court to review whether the federal law barring gun possession by people convicted of crimes punishable by more than a year in prison violates the Second Amendment as applied to him, based on his decade-old, nonviolent drug-distribution conviction.
- What's at stake
- Whether the federal ban can be applied to Storball because of his conviction remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Storball's petition asks how the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision on gun rights applies to the federal law covering people with certain criminal convictions.
Question presented
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” from possessing a firearm, violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, based solely on a decade old nonviolent drug distribution conviction.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. No oral argument or decision date is set.
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