SCOTUS Gun Watch 3/30/2026

Case Name

Case Number

On Appeal From

Issue

Status

Fletcher v. United States

25-7089

CA5

Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment

Filed 2/15/26

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

Mackins v. United States

25-7041

CA2

922(g)(1) challenge

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

Listed for 4/17 conference

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

Listed for 4/17 conference

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

Listed for 4/17 conference

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

Listed for 4/17 conference

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

Listed for 4/17 conference

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

Listed for 4/17 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

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

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

United States v. Mitchell

25-935

CA5

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

Filed 2/5/26

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

Zhong v. United States

25-742

United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after entry of judgment.

Filed 12/19/25

Listed for 2/20 conference

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 3/27 Conference & rescheduled

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 3/27 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 3/27 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 3/27 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 3/27 Conference

Nyandoro v. United States

25-6218

CA5

(a) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual who did not admit that he was intoxicated at the time of the firearm possession when he pleaded guilty.

(b) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)’s prohibition on firearm possession by “an unlawful user” of “any controlled substance” is unconstitutionally vague or should be construed in the narrowest manner possible to avoid unconstitutional applications

(c) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on the firearm crossing state lines at some point before the defendant came to possess it.

Filed 11/20/25

Listed for 2/27 conference

Grant v. Higgins

25-566

CA2

Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in the country, the AR-15.

Filed 11/7/25

Listed for 3/27 conference

Sanchez v. United States

25-6008

CA5

1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits firearm possession by a person who “is an unlawful user of … any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to an individual who was under the influence of marijuana at the time of possession.

2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)’s ban on firearm possession by “an unlawful user” of a controlled substance—a term not defined in the statute—is unconstitutionally vague

Filed 10/29/25

Listed for 2/20 Conference

Gardner v. Maryland

25-5961

Appellate Ct of Maryland

Does Maryland’s prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carry permit who displayed a loaded firearm in self-defense against an assailant’s vehicular assault and physical advance, violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), by lacking a historical tradition of disarming law-abiding citizens in such circumstances?

Filed 10/22/25

Listed for 4/17 conference

Picon v. United States

25-5713

DC Court of Appeals

Whether the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms applies fully to 18-20-year-olds.

Filed 9/23/25

Listed for 1/9 Conference

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

James v. United States

25-6267

CA11

922(g)(1) challenge

Filed 7/20/25

Listed for 4/2 Conference

Harris v. United States

25-372

CA3

(1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual who sometimes used marijuana but was not intoxicated at the time of the possession.

(2) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)’s prohibition on firearm possession by “an unlawful user” of “any controlled substance” is unconstitutionally vague.

Listed for 1/9 Conference

United States v. Daniels

24-1248

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.

Pending – no movement since October 2025

United States v. Sam

24-1249

CA5

Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.

Pending – no movement since October 2025

NRA v. Glass

24-1185

CA11

Whether Florida’s law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing firearms violates the Second Amendment.

Pending – no movement since November 2025

West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. ATF

25-132

CA4

Whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to law-abiding 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Pending – no movement since November 2025

OT 2025 Denials

Vincent v. Bondi

24-1155

CA10

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

Denied 3/2

Aramboles v. United States

25-6682

CA2

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

Denied 3/2

Heaggeans v. United States

25-6729

CA4

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

Denied 3/23

Garner v. United States

25-6698

CA5

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

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.

Denied 3/9

LeBlanc v. United States

25-6063

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 with decades-old prior convictions from their youth who have not been shown to be currently dangerous and seek to possess a firearm for self-defense?

Denied 3/23

Alexis v. United States

25-6761

CA5

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

Denied 3/23

Delgado v. United States

25-6732

CA2

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

Denied 3/9

Morgan v. United States

25-6677

CA5

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

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?

Denied 3/23

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

Denied 3/23

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]

Denied 3/23

McCowan v. United States

25-6775

CA5

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

Denied 3/23

Johnson v. United States

25-6750

CA4

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

Denied 3/9

Williams v. United States

25-6749

CA2

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

Denied 3/9

Reed v. United States

25-6771

CA11

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

Denied 3/23

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.

Denied 3/23

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.

Denied 3/23

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?

Denied 3/23

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

Denied 3/23

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?

Denied 3/23

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.

Denied 3/23

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.

Denied 3/23