I. Whether, and under what circumstances, a state can invoke state standing law to bar a criminal defendant from invoking the Second Amendment as a defense because he never previously applied for a gun license that the law categorically denied him?

II. Whether permanently barring even in-home gun possession on the basis of prior non-violent convictions, without any finding of dangerousness, violates the fundamental right of self-defense the Second Amendment protects?

Whether states can prevent a criminal defendant from invoking the Second Amendment as a defense and whether there is a historical tradition of permanent disarmament based on prior conviction without finding dangerousness