Supreme Court will decide if 'habitual drug users' lose their gun rights under 2nd Amendment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The appeal noted that California and 31 other states have laws restricting gun possession by drug users and drug addicts, all of which could be nullified by a broad reading of the 2nd Amendment The court said it will hear the case of a Texas man and a Pakistani native who came under investigation by the FBI for allegedly working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
47% : He was charged with violating the federal gun control law, but the 5th Circuit Court in New Orleans ruled this ban on gun possession violates the 2nd Amendment unless the defendant was under the influence of drugs when he was arrested.
35% : " The government says the ban applies only to addicts and "habitual users of illegal drugs," not to all those who have used drugs on occasion or in the past.
9% : The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals court that struck down the ban on gun possession by any "unlawful user" of illegal drugs, including marijuana. Trump's lawyers say this limit on gun rights comports with early American history when "common drunkards" were prohibited from having guns.

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