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Pro-Second Amendment groups praised the Supreme Court\u2019s unanimous decision Thursday that pared back the applicability of a federal law prohibiting marijuana users from possessing firearms.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Hemani v. United States that a regular marijuana user could not be prosecuted under 18 USC 922(g)(3), in a 9-0 authored by Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut praised the decision when contacted by the Daily Caller News Foundation. (RELATED: Supreme Court Declines To Hear Appeal In Case About Man Stripped Of Gun Rights Over Missing Child Support)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re pleased with today\u2019s decision, albeit it was a narrow one, it confirms that, you know, just on its face, that 922(g)(3) poses problems with regulating people who are not a danger to society based on their use of a substance and in this particular context, a substance of the federal government, despite saying that it prohibits people for a lifetime of firearms possession, the federal government has relaxed its grip on marijuana-related prosecutions and other things,\u201d Kraut told the DCNF.<\/p>\n

Hemani was charged with possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of marijuana, which lower federal courts had dismissed on Second Amendment grounds. According to court documents, Hemani was prosecuted on the gun charge for being a user of controlled substances after he admitted to being a regular user of marijuana after he handed over a firearm he owned to federal agents conducting a terrorism investigation. The Department of Justice did not file any terrorism charges against Hemani.<\/p>\n

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In his opinion, Gorsuch wrote that in the narrow case applying to Hemani and other users of marijuana, the prohibition was not in line with historical regulations permitted under the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government invites us to draw an analogy between its present regulation and historical laws addressing habitual drunkards,\u201d Gorsuch wrote in the opinion. \u201cThose laws, the government contends, demonstrate a tradition of firearm regulation consistent with its effort to disarm any regular user of any controlled substance without any further showing. But the government\u2019s analogy fails under every measure it asks us to consider: The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways. And faced with all these shortcomings in the government\u2019s submission, we cannot say it has carried its conceded burden of showing its prosecution of Mr. Hemani complies with the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

SAF, the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups filed amicus (\u201cfriend of the court\u201d) briefs in the case, according to SCOTUSBlog.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Supreme Court holds that the federal law prohibiting certain drug users from possessing firearms violates the Second Amendment. GOA & @GunFoundation are proud to have filed an amicus supporting the Second Amendment in this case,\u201d Gun Owners of America posted on X.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday\u2019s unanimous Supreme Court decision in United States v. Hemani is a major victory for the Second Amendment and peaceable gun owners across Americam,\u201d NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said in a statement provided to the DCNF. \u201cThe Court correctly rejected the government\u2019s attempt to disarm millions of responsible citizens\u2014without any pre-deprivation process\u2014based solely on their status as occasional marijuana users.\u201d (RELATED: Is ATF\u2019s \u2018Sporting Purposes\u2019 Test A Dead Infringement Walking?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs the NRA emphasized in our amicus brief, no one should be deprived of their God-given right to keep and bear arms for engaging in nonviolent conduct, and there is no historical justification for doing so,\u201d Commerford continued.<\/p>\n

New Civil Liberties Alliance Senior Litigation Counsel Jacob Huebert hailed the ruling on X Thursday, saying it could affect the group\u2019s legal challenge to Illinois\u2019 firearms licensing requirements. NCLA filed suit to invalidate the state\u2019s FOID scheme in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Illinois, it\u2019s like that, but worse: everyone is disarmed, by default, on suspicion that they might be disqualified\u2013and each person has to prove his or her eligibility to the Illinois State Police before so much as touching any gun,\u201d Huebert posted. \u201cThat\u2019s not how constitutional rights are supposed to work, and it violates both the Second Amendment and the right not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law. We look forward to seeing the courts strike it down, just as the Court struck down the federal marijuana-user ban today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-Second Amendment groups argued that the lower court rulings should be overturned, including Everytown for Gun Safety, which was one of the gun-control organizations that filed briefs before the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsideration of the full historical record, including post-ratification evidence, establishes that Section 922(g)(3) sits at the intersection of multiple regulatory traditions. The law is consistent with the traditions of disarming the habitually intoxicated; disarming those who present a particular risk of harm when armed; and disarming those \u2018who have demonstrated disrespect for legal norms of society,\u2019\u201d Everytown said in its .<\/p>\n

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