The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of a federal law preventing marijuana users from legally owning or possessing guns—insisting that, even if ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of the federal government’s legal defense of a law banning people who use ...

Since 1998, the FBI says countless drug users have been turned away by gun dealers because of the federal Firearm Transaction Form 4473. In addition, more than 240,000 potential gun buyers have been ...

ACLU Joins Supreme Court Challenge to Gun Ban for Marijuana Users In contrast to recent gun cases at the Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union is joining the Second Amendment challenge to ...

The Supreme Court is set to convene Monday to hear a Second Amendment dispute over a federal law that bars unlawful drug users from having firearms.

A federal law enacted in 1968, 177 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, makes it a felony, currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an "unlawful user" of "any controlled ...

You are watching a collision between two of America’s most contested policies: the rapid normalization of cannabis and the enduring centrality of gun rights. A new Supreme Court case asks whether ...