In a key case for the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a Texas man whose gun rights were stripped due to regular marijuana use.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court concluded that restricting gun rights for casual drug users violates the constitutional right to bear arms.
Here are the details:
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Texas man who challenged a federal law that bars certain drug users from having firearms. The justices found that Ali Hemani's prosecution for having a firearm while he was an unlawful drug user is inconsistent the Second… pic.twitter.com/y5jkruMfZw
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 18, 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Texas man who challenged a federal law that bars certain drug users from having firearms. The justices found that Ali Hemani’s prosecution for having a firearm while he was an unlawful drug user is inconsistent the Second Amendment.
Hemani allegedly was only an occasional user of marijuana when the FBI found a handgun at his Texas home in 2022.
Take a look at the ruling here:
🚨 The Supreme Court ruled that the federal ban on firearm possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment as applied to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana. pic.twitter.com/lhQ3Y9WCZu
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 18, 2026
This SCOTUS ruling limits part of a federal gun law barring unlawful drug users from owning firearms.
Notably, this is the same gun law that was used to prosecute Hunter Biden, before he was pardoned by his father.
Previously, those convicted under the law could face up to 15 years behind bars and a permanent gun ownership ban.
Fox News reported further:
The Supreme Court sided Thursday with a “habitual” marijuana user who challenged a federal law banning anyone who uses illegal drugs from legally possessing a firearm, a Second Amendment case that tested the limits of restricting gun ownership.
The court ruled the law, which was used to prosecute Hunter Biden, was overbroad and improperly deprived the man at the center of the case of his right to possess a firearm in his home. But the high court also said in its narrow ruling the law limits but does not end government power to take guns from drug users.
ADVERTISEMENT“We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
The case involved a Texas man charged with a felony after FBI agents raiding his home found a handgun he kept for self-defense and he admitted to smoking marijuana every other day.
In an opinion written by Gorsuch, the court held that the government’s prosecution of Ali Hemani under a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances violated the Second Amendment. Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan concurred only in the judgment.
This clip from Fox News provided further coverage on the major ruling:
🚨 NOW: The US Supreme Court has just unanimously ruled IN FAVOR of a Texas man who had his gun rights stripped because he uses marijuana
"It was whether or not you could go after someone who you discovered was a habitual drug user in this case marijuana."
"And then disqualify… pic.twitter.com/kyfD52jVZM
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 18, 2026
NOW: The US Supreme Court has just unanimously ruled IN FAVOR of a Texas man who had his gun rights stripped because he uses marijuana
“It was whether or not you could go after someone who you discovered was a habitual drug user in this case marijuana.”
“And then disqualify them from owning or possessing a gun. The court has got a unanimous opinion essentially. There are all kinds of factions and concurrences, but nobody’s dissenting here saying that the prosecution of this individual or going after this individual based on his drug usage and gun ownership violates the Second Amendment.”
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