Case Name
Case Number
On Appeal From
Issue
Status
United States v. Doucet
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
Pending – Filed 2/20/26
Pettyjohn v. United States
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?
Pending – Filed 2/6/26
Belin v. United States
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
Finney v. United States
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.
Pending – Filed 2/18/26
National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. James
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.
Pending – Filed 2/20/26
Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc. v. Raoul
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.
Pending – Filed 2/11/26
Cheatham v. United States
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.
Pending – Filed 2/18/26
Ali v. City of Portland
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?
Pending – Filed 2/17/26
Taylor v. United States
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
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Gibbs v. Florida
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
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
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Gomez v. United States
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
McCowan v. United States
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 2/3/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Johnson v. United States
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
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 2/5/26
Williams v. United States
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
CA11
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 2/3/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Hunter v. S.F.
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
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 2/5/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Delgado v. United States
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
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
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
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
CA4
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 2/2/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Garner v. United States
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Pending – Filed 1/27/26
Listed for 2/27 Conference
Schoenthal v. Raoul
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
