Supreme Court to hear gun possession for drug users case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a consequential case over whether regular drug users can possess firearms.

The case, U.S. v. Hemani centers around a Texas man who was charged with a felony after FBI agents found a pistol, marijuana and cocaine in his home after obtaining a search warrant, a petition to the court read.

The Trump administration petitioned the high court to hear the case after a lower court struck down the law barring people who use drugs such as marijuana from possessing firearms.

Lawyers for Ali Hemani argue that the federal law barring a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” violates the Second Amendment.

“An individual’s Second Amendment rights are not restricted until a judge makes a finding of a credible safety threat to the safety of others,” lawyers for Hemani wrote in a brief to the court.

The government argued that analogous laws in the founding-era align with the decision to restrict unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing...