United States v. Hemani
The Court holds that the government's prosecution of Ali Hemani under Section 922(g)(3)'s unlawful user provision — which automatically disarms anyone who is an unlawful user of a controlled substance — is inconsistent with the Second Amendment as applied to him. The habitual drunkard laws the government offered as a historical analogue targeted different people, for different reasons, and worked in different ways, so the government failed to show that disarming a regular marijuana user fits the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. CASE: United States v. Hemani AUTHOR…
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