Do Marijuana Users Still Have Rights?
Gun control advocates not only love attacking 2A rights, they also work hard to define who can can actually exercise them. From subjective criteria for CCW’s to excluding the trans community from gun ownership, the anti-2A crew continue to whittle down the sheer number of people who can exercise their fundamental rights.
In the latest installment of CRPA TV, CRPA President Chuck Michel joins host Kevin Small to talk about two cases pending at the Supreme Court that could decide whether laws prohibiting gun ownership by marijuana users withstand constitutional scrutiny.
U.S. v. Hemani, which has been granted cert, and Harris v. U.S., which has a pending cert petition, both grapple with federal law 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), prohibiting gun ownership by anyone who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”.
Defining large groups of people whose rights can be terminated is the ultimate in slippery slopes. Government has long been able to make sweeping laws and have them assumed to be valid but the Bruen standard requires that such laws be held to higher scrutiny.