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SCOTUS Gun Watch 2/23/2026 | Duke Center for Firearms Law

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Case Name

Case Number

On Appeal From

Issue

Status

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

Pending – Filed 2/11/26

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)

Pending – 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

Pending – Filed 2/11/26

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]

Pending – Filed 2/17/26

McCowan v. United States

25-6775

CA5

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

Pending – Filed 2/3/26

Johnson v. United States

25-6750

CA4

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

Pending – Filed 1/28/26

Listed for 3/6 Conference

United States v. Mitchell

25-935

CA5

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

Pending – Filed 2/5/26

Williams v. United States

25-6749

CA2

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

Pending – Filed 2/4/26

Listed for 3/6 Conference

Reed v. United States

25-6771

CA11

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

Pending – Filed 2/3/26

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.

Pending – 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

Pending – Filed 2/5/26

Delgado v. United States

25-6732

CA2

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

Pending – Filed 2/2/26

Listed for 3/6 Conference

Morgan v. United States

25-6677

CA5

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

Pending – Filed 1/23/26

Listed for 2/27 Conference

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?

Pending – Filed 1/28

Aramboles v. United States

25-6682

CA2

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

Pending – Filed 1/23/26

Listed for 2/27 Conference

Heaggeans v. United States

25-6729

CA4

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

Pending – Filed 2/2/26

Garner v. United States

25-6698

CA5

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

Pending – Filed 1/27/26

Listed for 2/27 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.

Pending – Filed 10/31/25

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.

Pending – filed 8/27/25

Relisted for 2/27 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.

Pending – filed 10/3/25

Relisted for 2/27 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

Pending – filed 5/20/25

Relisted for 2/27 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.

Pending – filed 8/6/25

Relisted for 2/27 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



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