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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 Enforcement Administration did not administer a drug test, though Daniels admitted he sometimes smoked marijua...
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.