"This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in a huge gun case, and in the process laid a trap for the progressive left that too many people are stumbling into. The case has always-online lefties arguing that an expansion of gun rights is the correct political and legal outcome, but that is getting things all twisted."
"The hypocrisy of this law is flagrant. Alcoholics are allowed to own guns. In some counties, you can stumble from your local bar to your local gun shop and be strapped before closing time. It is absurd that a person who is too drunk to operate a car is allowed to carry a gun on their person, but a weed smoker is not allowed to keep a gun in their house. Do you know how many mass shootings have been committed by people who were high on weed? My guess is zero... they all decided to shoot up the place tomorrow."
"Ali Danial Hemani challenged the hypocrisy of this law. Hemani's home in Texas was searched by the FBI in August, 2022. The feds found a Glock 9mm, 60 grams of marijuana (roughly equivalent to 2 ounces), and 4.7 grams of cocaine. I am going to assume that the FBI was looking for something a little more incriminating than some recreational drugs and a handgun, but, like Hunter Biden, the only thing the government was able to charge Hemani with was this violation of Section 922. Hemani was able to get his case dismissed."
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a major gun-rights case centered on 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. The statute treats alcohol differently from other substances, allowing alcoholics to possess guns while prohibiting marijuana users. Critics call the law hypocritical and politically fraught. A Texas defendant, Ali Danial Hemani, faced charges after an FBI search found a handgun, marijuana, and cocaine, but a court dismissed his case when the government could not prove present or recent drug use.
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