The Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights
Just so we’re all on the same page, the current status quo is that you cannot buy a firearm if you use pot. This ruling would potentially change that. No, it does not matter if your state has legalized it, or if it’s strictly for medicinal use. The ATF doesn’t care.
This thread is a pretty good example of why I say that even if you’re completely against any guns existing in society at all, you should still know how they work and what current laws actually do. Otherwise, you get the jumping to conclusions and bad analysis that we see here.
Just so we’re all on the same page, the current status quo is that you cannot buy a firearm if you use pot. This ruling would potentially change that. No, it does not matter if your state has legalized it, or if it’s strictly for medicinal use. The ATF doesn’t care.
It’s rarely enforced, but it’s there.
No one else here bothered to get on this page.
I tried.
This thread is a pretty good example of why I say that even if you’re completely against any guns existing in society at all, you should still know how they work and what current laws actually do. Otherwise, you get the jumping to conclusions and bad analysis that we see here.