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https://thereload.com/federal-judge-tosses-gun-possession-case-against-drug-users/

Being an unlawful user of a controlled substance does not remove a person’s Second Amendment rights, a federal trial court ruled last Friday.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, a George W. Bush appointee, dismissed a case against an El Paso woman who was charged with possessing a firearm as an unlawful user of marijuana and with transferring a firearm and ammunition to her husband, himself an illegal user of multiple controlled substances. Judge Cardone ruled that the federal prohibitions regulating both charges “deviate from our Nation’s history of firearm regulation” and are “unconstitutional.”

And who is on the jury.

Hunter Biden on Addiction and His Family’s Effort to Keep Him Alive | Time

I presume the tax case is pretty clear cut, and of course he admitted openly to being a drug addict, and was kicked out of the Navy for a positive test.

I'm sure he was advised by council to take the pleas because they knew it would be almost impossible to get an NG verdict.  One can make all sorts of excuses for whatever, but I think most rational people understand he was a drug addict, he did lie on that form, and he did evade taxes, quite a large sum in fact, on $3 million over two years.

Supreme Court strikes down New York gun law along ideological lines - POLITICO

Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said New York’s requirement that gun owners show “proper cause” to carry a weapon outside the home for self-defense violates the Constitution’s guarantee of gun rights.

“We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need,” Thomas wrote. “That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.”

However, the dissenting justices said the court was trampling on New York’s efforts to tailor weapons regulations to particular threats posed by guns in that state.