BELLEVUE, Wash. — Jan. 29, 2026 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed an amicus transient with the Supreme Courtroom in assist of the respondent in United States v. Hemani, a case difficult the federal lifetime ban on firearm possession for marijuana customers.
SAF is joined within the amicus submitting by the California Rifle & Pistol Affiliation, Second Modification Legislation Heart, Residents Committee for the Proper to Preserve and Bear Arms and Minnesota Gun House owners Caucus.
“The federal government’s place defies Bruen and Rahimi by looking for to impose a everlasting disarmament on law-abiding residents who use marijuana, even when sober, with none distinctly related historic custom to justify such a draconian restriction,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Schooling Kostas Moros. “Historical past reveals that Founding-era legal guidelines addressed the hazards of intoxication and firearms via non permanent restrictions on these actively impaired, by no means by stripping gun rights from sober people who often use socially accepted substances like alcohol — or, by analogy, marijuana in the present day. We urge the Courtroom to affirm the Fifth Circuit and reject this unconstitutional overreach.”
The ban on firearm possession by marijuana customers impacts tens of millions of law-abiding Individuals who face dropping their Second Modification rights merely for utilizing a substance that’s state-legal and broadly accepted, typically for medical causes. Marijuana is at the moment authorized to a numerous extent in 40 states.
“This case highlights the federal authorities’s unconstitutional infringement on the precise to maintain and bear arms for these legally utilizing marijuana, ignoring clear historic limits,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “SAF is dedicated to defending these rights towards outdated prohibitions, and we imagine this warrants the Supreme Courtroom’s affirmation.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By way of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the precise to maintain and bear arms.
