Antjoun Riddick v. United States
SecondAmendment
Whether the federal government has the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate noncommercial, intrastate possession of an object that has crossed state lines, and whether such regulation violates the Second Amendment
I. Whether the federal government has the authority under the Commerce Clause, Art. I, § 8, cl. 3, to regulate the noncommercial, intrastate possession of an object that has crossed state lines at some point in the past, however remote, if that intrastate possession does not implicate the channels or instrumentalities of interstate or foreign commerce. II. Whether, despite the lack of a circuit split, this Court should address the issue of whether this Court’s decision in United States v. Lopez 514 U.S. 549 (1995), undermined this Court’s decision in Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563 (1977), concerning the extent of the federal government’s power under the Commerce Clause to regulate a person’s noncommercial, intrastate possession of an object. III. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as applied to petitioner, violates the Second Amendment because he possessed a pistol at a private residence.