BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 30, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed an amicus transient with the Supreme Court docket urging the courtroom to grant certiorari in Harris v. United States, a case difficult the federal ban on firearm possession by people who use marijuana.
SAF is joined within the amicus submitting by the California Rifle & Pistol Affiliation, Second Modification Legislation Middle, Operation Blazing Sword–Pink Pistols, Minnesota Gun Homeowners Caucus and Minnesota Gun Homeowners Legislation Middle.
“The Third Circuit’s ruling defies Bruen and Rahimi by upholding a lifetime disarmament of sober residents who often use a substance – marijuana – that’s now authorized to numerous extents in 40 states and socially accepted by a supermajority of People,” mentioned SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Schooling Kostas Moros. “Historical past reveals that Founding-era legal guidelines addressed the hazard of blending alcohol and firearms by briefly disarming the actively intoxicated, by no means by stripping gun rights from anybody who merely drank moderately. The Third Circuit ignored this shut historic analogue and as a substitute relied on distant comparisons to legal guidelines disarming the ‘furiously mad.’ We urge the Court docket to intervene and restore the right Bruen framework.”
Whereas the Supreme Court docket has just lately granted cert in one other marijuana-related case, U.S. v. Hemani, that case entails more durable medicine than marijuana and different uncommon info, and the transient urges the Court docket to listen to this case alongside it.
“This case is essential as a result of it impacts thousands and thousands of law-abiding People who face dropping their Second Modification rights merely for utilizing a substance authorized of their state – typically for medical causes,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “SAF can also be difficult a firearms buy ban by medical marijuana card holders in Greene v. Bondi, and we really feel it’s an necessary situation that warrants the Supreme Court docket’s intervention.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of america 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 public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms.
