firearm-regulation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6884 | Abdullahi Said Ali v. City of Portland, Oregon | Oregon | 2026-02-24 | Pending | IFP | affirmative-defense constitutional-rights firearm-regulation historical-tradition licensing-regime second-amendment | Does a city ordinance that prohibits carrying a loaded firearm in public, but permits a defendant to raise an affirmative defense that the defendant h… |
| 25-6879 | King Belin v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | IFP | appellate-preservation constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession-of-firearm firearm-regulation second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant whose prior conviction is not accompanied by any judicial finding that … |
| 25-997 | Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2026-02-20 | Pending | Response Waived | firearm-regulation open-carry public-carry right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense | District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570, 612-613 (2008) explained that the Second Amendment protects the "right to carry arms openly." New York St… |
| 25-6817 | Gerald Kemondre Taylor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights firearm-regulation historical-tradition machinegun-conversion second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a handgun affixed with a machinegun conversion device constitute s an "arm" under the Se cond Amendment' s plain text, thus requiring the gove… |
| 25-6771 | Kionnataya Shevil Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment | Does the lifetime criminalization of any convicted felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25A759 | Abdullah Said Ali v. City of Portland, Oregon | Oregon | 2025-12-31 | Application | concealed-carry firearm-regulation historical-tradition loaded-weapon municipal-ordinance second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6428 | Joshua A. Sottile v. City of Portland, Oregon | Oregon | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-regulation heller-precedent public-carry second-amendment | Whether a law that criminalizes carrying a loaded firearm in public, subject to exceptions raised only as affirmative defenses, violates the Second Am… |
| 25-6055 | Tamori Morgan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arms-classification constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-prohibition | Whether a handgun and handheld pistol that fire automatically constitute "arms" under the Second Amendment's plain text, thus requiring the government… |
| 25-296 | Jake Stanley DeWilde v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation gun-possession military-weapons second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution permits the government to prohibit the possession, by responsible, law-abiding Americans, of the stan… |
| 25-184 | Deamonte Law v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di… | |
| 25-5339 | David Keith Nutter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law firearm-regulation historical-analogues misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment | 1. Whether § 922(g)(9) runs afoul of the Second Amendment, facially and as-applied, where (a) ambiguous historical regulation of generalized "dangerou… |
| 24A1003 | Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Presumed Complete | age-restrictions constitutional-challenge firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment state-emergency | 1. This case involves a Second Amendment challenge to provisions of Pennsylvania law which prohibit under-21-year-olds from openly carrying firearms w… | |
| 24-7033 | Aqudre Quailes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment | Following this Court's holding in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), courts must engage in a history-based analysis when dec… |
| 24-6984 | Tyrone Woodson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment state-law | Does Fla. Stat. § 790.23(1) and (1)(a), which makes it "unlawful for any person to own or to have in his or her care, custody, possession, or control … |
| 24-6197 | Gail Manney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-standard constitutional-review criminal-statute firearm-regulation ninth-circuit second-amendment | The question presented is whether the Second Amendment covers a federal firearm regulation. This Court has not yet clarified the Second Amendment's co… |
| 24A620 | Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | bruen-standard constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation rahimi-exception second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5937 | Randy Price v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bruen-test constitutional-interpretation en-banc-review firearm-regulation second-amendment statutory-construction | The narrow question presented is whether Second Amendment protected "conduct," for purposes of Bruen's step one, consists of anything other than an in… |
| 24A443 | Deion Shawn Hester v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Presumed Complete | bruen commerce-clause felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24A421 | Bob Jacobson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety v. Kristin Worth, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | age-restriction bruen-test firearm-regulation gun-rights historical-analogue second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7692 | Angel Jesus Paniagua v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. … |
| 23-7225 | Leroy Hoyle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. … |
| 23-944 | Jeremy W. Langley, et al. v. Brendan F. Kelly, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Illinois State Police, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use constitutional-ban due-process firearm-regulation gun-rights heller-v-dc new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment semi-automatic-weapons supreme-court-precedent | 1. Is the State of Illinois ' absolute ban of certain commonly owned semi-automatic handguns constitutional in light of the holding in D.C. v. Heller… |
| 23-6520 | Gary Von Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power federal-authority federal-criminal-law firearm-regulation firearms-regulation interstate-commerce scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) should be construed to require a more substantial connection to interstate commerce than the mere passage of a firearm acros… |
| 23A140 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range | Third Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Presumed Complete | 18-USC-922g constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5360 | Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,… |
| 23-5111 | Jacob Webster, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis criminal-prosecution facial-challenge firearm-regulation new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association-v-brue overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine second-amendment united-states-v-stevens | 1. For facial challenges to a state prosecution on Second Amendment grounds, must a criminal defendant prove that no set of circumstances exist under … |
| 22-5748 | James Atkinson v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-possession licensing-law second-amendment standing subjective-standard takings | 1. Whether Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 140, § 131(f)—which authorizes the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to suspend a law-abiding, adult citizen's License to … |
| 21-8009 | Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey | At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the … |
| 21-7450 | Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-1160 | Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-02-22 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation | Massachusetts requires people to obtain licenses in order to possess or purchase handguns, and it disqualifies people with certain criminal conviction… |
| 20-1640 | Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-05-25 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review | What is the proper standard of constitutional review of a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment—possession and use of a firearm with… | |
| 19-568 | Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | GVR | 18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… | |
| 18-7779 | Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm | Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
| 18-843 | Ivan Pena, et al. v. Martin Horan, Director, California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation firearm-restrictions handgun-regulation intermediate-scrutiny microstamping second-amendment self-defense standing takings | California's "Unsafe Handgun Act," Cal. Penal Code § 31900 et seq., violates the Second Amendment by banning handguns of the kind in common use for tr… |
| 18-6468 | Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden | This case presents 3 narrow and discrete questions for this Court to consider, viz. - what happens when (a) the Government fails to allege in an indic… |
| 18-6222 | Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez | Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |