Supreme Court to hear challenge to law barring drug users from guns

The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether a federal law that bars habitual users of illegal drugs from possessing guns violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The Trump administration, which generally supports gun rights, opposes the gun owner in this case. The administration asked the justices to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found the federal law unconstitutional in most cases.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in filings that “courts should exercise utmost vigilance” in protecting the right to bear arms but that there are “narrow circumstances” when restrictions are justified. The law results in hundreds of prosecutions each year, Sauer said.

One of those was against Hunter Biden, the son of former president Joe Bide