Why Hunter Biden may embrace the Second Amendment – By Jordan Rubin (MSNBC) / June 2, 2023
The law banning people who use government-disapproved substances from having guns is a suspect one, whether it’s Hunter Biden or anyone else charged under it.
New reporting indicates that if Hunter Biden is charged with a gun crime related to his admitted drug use, he’ll attempt to harness the Supreme Court’s far-right Second Amendment jurisprudence to his advantage. He should.
Politico reported Thursday:
“The president’s son is the target of a Justice Department investigation scrutinizing his purchase of a gun in 2018 — a time when he has said he was regularly using crack cocaine. Federal law bans drug users from owning guns.
But the constitutionality of that law — like many other provisions restricting gun ownership — is newly in question after a precedent-rocking decision the Supreme Court handed down almost a year ago.”
That Supreme Court decision was New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The 6-3 ruling was the GOP-dominated court’s latest absurd expansion of the Second Amendment. As I explained in a previous post about a post-Bruen ruling from the right-wing 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down a law keeping guns from domestic abusers, the Republican-appointed majority in Bruen established a test that strikes down firearm regulations unless they’re “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
