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A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms – the latest blow to US gun regulations after the Supreme Court cleared the way last year for courts to reexamine the nation’s gun laws under a new legal standard.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Wednesday voided a federal law preventing unlawful drug users from possessing guns, citing the Supreme Court's landmark decision from last year.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a decades-old law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from owning firearms was unconstitutional as applied to the case of a marijuana user, the latest fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights. The man, Patrick Daniels, had been convicted under that law after law enforcement found a pistol and a semi-automatic rifle in his vehicle during a traffic stop along with marijuana cigarette butts. The U.S. Drug Enforcemen...

A federal appeals court has declared the application of a long-standing law banning firearm ownership for illegal drug users unconstitutional.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled against a federal law that prohibits unlawful drug users from possessing firearms.

The conviction of a man for possessing a firearm while an "unlawful user" of drugs has been quashed by an appeals court, in a case that could offer fresh hope…

Does using drugs mean you forfeit your right to own guns? Well, it doesnt look like it does, and thats good news for many.

The U.S. Court of Appeals judged "history and tradition" does not "justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage."

A man pulled over in Hancock County last year now has his conviction tossed after this monumental Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in New Orleans. Here’s how it happened.

Drug use has long been one of the reasons to deny gun ownership. This, now, is changing.