Drug user cannot be barred from owning guns, US court rules
A federal appeals court on Wednesday [9/13/23] 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 opinion overturns the conviction of a Mississippi man… who had two guns… pistol and semi-automatic… found in his car during a traffic stop… and acknowledged using marijuana regularly but wasn’t accused of driving under the influence. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not administer a drug test, though Daniels admitted he sometimes smoked marijuana, which federal law prohibits…
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Drug user cannot be barred from owning guns, US court rules
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