right-to-bear-arms

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A340 Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete court-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice nonviolent-conviction right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether a nonviolent special court-martial conviction can constitutionally deprive an individual of their Second Amendment right to bear arms
25-5713 Emanuel Leyton Picon v. United States District of Columbia 2025-09-24 Pending IFP age-restriction constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms applies fully to 18-20-year-olds
24-7264 Michael Lee Sharpe v. Texas Texas 2025-05-21 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation felony-conviction firearms-possession individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment guarantees an individual who has been convicted of a felony offense the unencumbered right to possess firearms
24-6046 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-prohibition government-power right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense weapons-regulation Does the unqualified constitutional prohibition established by the Second Amendment delegate to government a free-floating power to infringe upon the …
23-6338 Marc Fishman v. New York New York 2023-12-22 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard order-of-protection parental-rights parenting procedural-due-process right-to-bear-arms Whether New York State's statutory framework violates procedural due process
22-6993 Kenneth Ray Carlyle, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights ex-convict-firearms felons interstate-commerce right-to-bear-arms sawed-off-shotguns second-amendment strict-liability Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of felons to possess sawed-off shotguns
21-1440 Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Missouri 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause permit attorney sanctions for professional misconduct based on a finding of 'moral turpitude' wher…
21-6372 James Michael Bartley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights competency-proceeding constitutional-challenge due-process gun-rights judicial-review mental-competency mental-illness right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing Whether the government may deny a law-abiding citizen their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment based solely on a competency proceeding that…
21-5931 Noe Lopez Suchite v. New York New York 2021-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-information penal-law right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense trial-transcripts Whether the petitioner's use of force was justified under New York Penal Law 35.15 when the petitioner reasonably believed he was in risk of peril
20-1639 George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights concealed-carry due-process home-defense right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home
20-7714 Dario Reyes-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether resident undocumented immigrants are part of the people whose right to keep and bear arms for individual self-defense the second-amendment pro…
20-916 Nathaniel K. Hooker v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-08 Dismissed adversarial-proceeding criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance probable-cause right-to-bear-arms right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Will County erroneously deprived the defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel during his criminal proceedings
19-6910 Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional Whether Article 42.013 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure contravenes Apprendi v. New Jersey by requiring judges, not juries, to make family-viol…
19-27 Mark Cheeseman v. Joseph Polillo, Chief of Police, City of Glassboro, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2019-07-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-permitting due-process handgun-permit justifiable-need public-safety right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-protection standing takings Whether States can limit the ability to bear handguns outside the home to only those found to have a sufficiently heightened 'need' for self-protectio…
18-1272 Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. First Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense
18-6515 Kevin Wayne Vanover and Meredith Ann Yates v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment,constitutional-interpretation,histor civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-rights founding-era government-power historical-evidence historical-intent individual-liberty military-force right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to be prepared to resist abuse of government power by military force, with equal force
18-5541 Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax?