Recently, scholars at the Cato Institute and Reason Foundation filed an amicus brief in United States v. Hemani, a case before the Supreme Court considering the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by controlled substance users, including marijuana users.
A new blog post from Matthew Cavedon, the director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, details how this law violates the Second Amendment:
“If courts can suspend ‘the constitutional rights of so many for such common behavior,’ something has gone awry. The Second Amendment’s command is timeless and clear: people have a fundamental right to keep and bear arms that does not yield to empirically baseless fabulism or extravagant distortions of history.”
To speak with Cavedon on defending Second Amendment rights for all Americans, contact Christopher Tarvardian.
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