The Supreme Court’s Hemani decision reinforces a simple constitutional reality: the government cannot restrict the right to keep and bear arms unless it can prove the restriction fits America’s historical tradition.
The Supreme Court handed down its decision in United States v. Hemani this week, and the headline writes itself: Marijuana users can own guns. The Court ruled that the government can't prosecute Ali Danial Hemani under the federal law that bars drug users from possessing firearms, at le...
The Supreme Court’s 9-0 Hemani judgment rejected automatic disarmament based solely on regular marijuana use. Its rigorous historical analysis could also spell trouble for Hawaii’s “Vampire Rule” in Wolford v. Lopez.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the unanimous judgment protecting Ali Hemani’s Second Amendment rights. Her concurrence, however, called Bruen a “failed experiment” and urged a return to government-friendly means-end scrutiny.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — An armed robbery at a Fayetteville smoke shop turned into a shooting Wednesday night, and the clerk who tried to defend himself ended up wounded and disarmed. Police say a suspect walked into the Smoke Shack in the 4400 block of Murchison Road around 9 p.m., pulled a gun, a...
In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the federal government’s attempt to disarm a regular marijuana user under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), strengthening Bruen and requiring individualized evidence before Second Amendment rights are stripped away.
OLYMPIA, WASH. — The Washington Supreme Court ruled June 11 that the state can strip your Second Amendment rights over repeat drunk driving convictions, even when no firearm was ever involved in the offense. In McLellan v. Brown, the court upheld RCW 9.41.040, a 2023 law that temporarily bars a...
Ten Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys have reportedly said they will not enforce Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new assault firearms ban. Their position is simple: prosecutors swear an oath to the Constitution, not to unconstitutional gun-control schemes.
A late-night armed robbery near downtown Des Moines' Pappajohn Sculpture Park escalated into a violent shootout on Friday, May 22, 2026, leaving a 17-year-old suspect in critical condition. Des Moines Police released the 22-year-old victim without charges after determining he acted in self-defens...