US Supreme Court eases restrictions on drug users owning firearms
Key takeaways
- Court sides unanimously with marijuana user who argued that law barring him from owning firearms violated US Constitution.
- All nine of the court’s justices ruled in favour of Ali Danial Hemani on Thursday.
- “The court’s unanimous ruling will protect millions of Americans from draconian punishment, simply because they happen to use marijuana and own a firearm,” Niz Ahmad, a lawyer for Hemani, said after Thursday’s ruling.
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Court sides unanimously with marijuana user who argued that law barring him from owning firearms violated US Constitution.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo The US Supreme Court on June 18 ruled unanimously in favour of a man who argued his Second Amendment gun rights were violated due to prior drug use [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via AFP]By Al Jazeera Staff, Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 18 Jun 202618 Jun 2026The United States Supreme Court has sided with a marijuana user from the state of Texas who had argued that a federal law barring illegal drug users from owning a firearm violated the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
All nine of the court’s justices ruled in favour of Ali Danial Hemani on Thursday. The anonymous ruling narrows, but does not eliminate, the government’s ability to restrict gun access for drug users.