This headline is seriously misleading. The court did not “strike down” the entire law.
The law says that users of illegal drugs cannot purchase guns. The court said that the law cannot stop a person who uses marijuana a few times per week from buying a gun. Because marijuana usage is common and normalized now, a gun ban would violate that person’s right to keep and bear arms.
This decision does not automatically get Hunter Biden off the hook, because Hunter Biden’s case involved a much greater variety of drugs. Hunter will certainly try to litigate this, but success is not certain for him.
This headline is seriously misleading. The court did not “strike down” the entire law.
The law says that users of illegal drugs cannot purchase guns. The court said that the law cannot stop a person who uses marijuana a few times per week from buying a gun. Because marijuana usage is common and normalized now, a gun ban would violate that person’s right to keep and bear arms.
This decision does not automatically get Hunter Biden off the hook, because Hunter Biden’s case involved a much greater variety of drugs. Hunter will certainly try to litigate this, but success is not certain for him.
Why would he litigate it, he was pardoned. 0 incentive to put himself into more public scrutiny