SCOTUS Gun Watch 3/20/2026

Case Name

Case Number

On Appeal From

Issue

Status

Mackins v. United States

25-7041

CA2

Constitutionality of 922(g)(1)

Filed 3/9/26

Abercrombie v. United States

25-7072

CA1

Whether a miscarriage of justice occurred where Petitioner was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm, for which the government only established his mere proximity to the firearm, but did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt any intent to exercise dominion and control over it.

Filed 3/14/26

Ramirez v. United States

25-7035

CA5

Does the Second Amendment permit Congress to impose a permanent, categorical firearm prohibition based solely on a prior felony conviction?

Filed 3/9/26

Conner v. United States

25-7010

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals with convictions for non-violent offenses

Filed 3/5/26

Jackson v. United States

25-6994

CA4

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone under indictment for a felony, can constitutionally be applied to a nonviolent indictee on the theory that Congress may, consistent with the Second Amendment, disarm whole categories of people on a class-wide basis, without requiring individualized showings that a given member of that class is dangerous

Filed 3/5/26

Edwards v. United States

25-6987

CA5

1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), because it is permanent and applies to all persons convicted of felonies?

2. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional as applied to individuals whose predicate convictions involve conduct that was not historically subject to permanent disarmament at the founding?

Filed 3/2/26

Scott v. United States

25-6983

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner.

Filed 3/5/26

Peterson v. United States

25-1076

CA5

1. Whether the National Firearms Act’s taxation-and-registration scheme for covered firearms can be justified as a licensing law.

2. Whether the National Firearms Act’s taxation-and-registration scheme violates the Second Amendment with respect to firearm suppressors.

Filed 3/9/26

R.R. v. New Jersey

25-1060

Superior Ct New Jersey, Appellate Div.

1. May a court deny Second Amendment rights due to a person’s lawful and peaceful expression of his religious beliefs and grievances with his government?

2. Is disenfranchisement of Second Amendment rights constitutional when denied under a statute that prohibits issuance of firearm purchaser permits “in the interest of the public health, safety or welfare because the person is found to be lacking the essential character of temperament necessary to be entrusted with a firearm”?

3. Does the above standard constitute a Second Amendment restriction that is not in our Nation’s historical text and tradition of firearm regulation; or an unconstitutional interest-balancing test in offense to Heller; or an unconstitutionally vague or overbroad standard upon undefined terms that lack Due Process notice?

Filed 3/5/26

Listed for 4/2 Conference

Johnson v. New York

25-6940

Court of Appeals of NY

Whether, or under what circumstances, individuals can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply with a licensing scheme that contains a facially unconstitutional licensing standard?

Filed 2/23/26

Listed for 3/27 Conference

United States v. Cockerham

25-1029

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.

Filed 2/27/26

Browne v. Reynolds

25-1036

Supreme Court of Iowa

Whether Iowa Code § 914.7 (2026) entitled “[r]ights not restorable” infringes the Petitioner’s right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments—suspended upon the Petitioner’s 1991 convictions under Iowa law for Willful Injury, a forcible felony, and Criminal Gang Participation—by barring him from having that right restored for life.

Filed 2/25/26

Listed for 4/2 Conference

Brown v. United States

25-6920

CA11

1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right?

2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) withstand Second Amendment scrutiny in all of its applications, or is it unconstitutional as applied to some felons?

Filed 2/27/26

Listed for 3/27 Conference

Doster v. United States

25-6952

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner

Filed 2/26/26

Morrissette v. United States

25-6962

CA11

1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment.

2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession by felons violates the Second Amendment as applied to Mr. Morrissette, who was previously convicted of non-violent drug and property offenses.

Filed 3/2/26

United States v. Doucet

25-1001

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, violates the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant with a predicate conviction for attempted cultivation of marijuana

Filed 2/20/26

Pettyjohn v. United States

25-6896

CA8

Whether, as the Eighth Circuit has held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is facially constitutional?

Filed 2/6/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Belin v. United States

25-6879

CA1

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 he poses a present danger to the physical safety of others, where the Government does not prove that permanently disarming such individuals is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

2. Whether a defendant preserves an as-applied constitutional challenge to § 922(g)(1) for appellate review by filing and litigating a pretrial motion to dismiss the indictment on Second Amendment grounds, or whether a court of appeals may treat the claim as forfeited and apply plain-error review.

Pending – Filed 2/16/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Finney v. United States

25-6868

CA4

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment, either facially or as applied to the Petitioner.

Filed 2/18/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v.  James

25-1026

CA2

Whether the PLCAA’s predicate exception allows parties to bring the same common-law-style suits against firearms industry members that Congress enacted the PLCAA to prohibit, so long as states codify those general common-law principles in a statute that applies to commerce in arms.

Filed 2/20/26

Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc. v.  Raoul

25-997

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District

Whether the plain language of the Second Amendment encompasses the open carry of firearms in public and if so, whether Illinois’s criminal prohibition on open carry is consistent with our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

Filed 2/11/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Cheatham v. United States

25-6870

CA4

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment, either facially or as applied to the Petitioner.

Filed 2/18/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Ali v. City of Portland

25-6884

Court of Appeals of Oregon

Does a city ordinance that prohibits carrying a loaded firearm in public, but permits a defendant to raise an affirmative defense that the defendant had a concealed-handgun license, violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Filed 2/17/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Taylor v. United States

25-6817

CA4

Whether a handgun affixed with a machinegun conversion device constitutes an “arm” under the Second Amendment’s plain text, thus requiring the government to justify the machinegun-possession prohibition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(o)(1) by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation

Filed 2/11/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Gibbs v. Florida

25-6842

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Whether a categorical ban on the possession of firearms by persons with prior felony convictions is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent traffic offenses. (State law)

Filed 2/10/26

Simpson v. United States

25-6813

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” from possessing a firearm, violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with a prior conviction for evading arrest with a vehicle.

2. Whether, for Second Amendment challenges to § 922(g)(1), courts can consider only the elements of a prior conviction— not alleged conduct—when determining whether an analogous historical tradition supports permanent disarmament

Filed 2/11/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Gomez v. United States

25-6858

CA2

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(k) violates the Second Amendment on its face. [Prohibition on interstate transmission of firearms with obliterated serial numbers]

Filed 2/17

Listed for 3/20 Conference

McCowan v. United States

25-6775

CA5

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Filed 2/3/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Johnson v. United States

25-6750

CA4

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/9

United States v. Mitchell

25-935

CA5

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Filed 2/5/26

Williams v. United States

25-6749

CA2

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/9

Reed v. United States

25-6771

CA11

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Filed 2/3/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Hunter v. S.F.

25-6787

Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District

Whether California’s practice of automatically and prolongedly disarming individuals subject to non-violent restraining orders violates the Second Amendment (as applied to the States via the Fourteenth Amendment) when, as in Petitioner’s case, there was no finding of any credible threat of physical harm and no history of violence, thus depriving an innocent person of the core right to keep and bear arms for self-defense for five years without proper constitutional guardrails.

Filed 10/10/25, docketed 2/11/26

Alexis v. United States

25-6761

CA5

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Filed 2/5/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Delgado v. United States

25-6732

CA2

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/9

Morgan v. United States

25-6677

CA5

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/2

England v. United States

25-6711

CA4

(1) Whether the “in common use for lawful purposes” measure for applying Second Amendment protections to certain firearms is determined as part of Bruen’s step one textual/conduct analysis, or Bruen’s step two historical analysis?

(2) Whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), part of the National Firearms Act, violates the Second Amendment as applied to England’s possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, where England introduced uncontradicted evidence proving that firearm is no more dangerous and unusual than comparable unregulated non-NFA weapons in common use for lawful purposes?

(3) Whether the individual right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment applies only to “law-abiding citizens” who have no prior convictions?

Filed 1/28

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Aramboles v. United States

25-6682

CA2

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/2

Heaggeans v. United States

25-6729

CA4

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Filed 2/2/26

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Garner v. United States

25-6698

CA5

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/2

LaFave v. Fairfax County

25-872

CA4

Whether the Fourth Circuit properly rejected Petitioners’ challenge to Fairfax County’s ban on carrying firearms in the hundreds of public parks operated by the County because four of those parks host preschool programs.

Petition Denied 3/9

Schoenthal v. Raoul

25-541

CA7

Whether Illinois’ flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.

Filed 10/31/25

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Viramontes v. Cook County, Ill.

25-238

CA7

Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.

Filed 8/27/25

Listed for 3/6 Conference

National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont

25-421

CA2

Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by millions of law-abiding Americans for lawful purposes—violates the Second Amendment.

Filed 10/3/25

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Duncan v. Bonta

25-198

CA9

1. Whether a ban on the possession of exceedingly common ammunition feeding devices violates the Second Amendment.

2. Whether a law dispossessing citizens, without compensation, of property that they lawfully acquired and long possessed without incident violates the Takings Clause

Filed 5/20/25

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Gator’s Custom Guns Inc. v. Washington

25-153

Supreme Court of Washington

Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are “Arms” presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under the plain text of the Second Amendment.

Filed 8/6/25

Listed for 3/20 Conference

Vincent v. Bondi

24-1155

CA10

Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban

Petition Denied 3/2

Paris v. Second Amendment Foundation

24-1329

CA3

Do firearms laws imposing a minimum age of 21 violate the purported Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds?

Pending – no movement since November 2025

McCoy v. ATF

25-24

CA4

Whether federal laws banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns from federally licensed firearm dealers violates the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to keep arms

Pending – no movement since November 2025