But the constitutionality of that law [banning gun ownership by drug users] — 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.
[Hunter Biden’s] lawyers have already told Justice Department officials that, if their client is charged with the gun crime, they will challenge the law under the Second Amendment, according to a person familiar with the private discussions granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly. That could turn a case that is already fraught with political consequences into a high-profile showdown over the right to bear arms.
Of course you do. Millions of gun owners may soon have the son of the most anti-gun President in American history fighting in their corner.
If by some remote chance Biden-the-younger is actually charged by the Justice Department (don’t hold your breath), tens of millions of users of marijuana in states where it’s been legalized will have Hunter F-ing Biden arguing that under Bruen, the federal law banning gun sales and ownership by drug users is unconstitutional.
Biden’s lawyers aren’t stupid. They’ve surveyed the legal landscape and know that’s the direction things are going since the Supreme Court’s decision was handed down.
The Politico story goes on to document the cracks in the gun control wall that have developed in the post-Bruen world and note that even on the gun rights side, not everyone has come down (yet) on overturning the laws banning gun ownership by drug users. OK. Whatever.
In the mean time, you’ll have to forgive us while we enjoy the prospect of a torrent of schadenfreude that will overtake us and a lot of others on the pro-gun rights side if and when Hunter Biden’s attorneys challenge the constitutionality of the federal ban.
The hysterics that eventuality will cause — publicly visible or not — in the halls of Everytown, Giffords, Brady, the Demanding Moms and more could be the single best thing to come out of the Bruen ruling so far.
