Case Name
Case Number
On Appeal From
Issue
Status
Conner v. United States
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
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
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
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
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
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
Johnson v. New York
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
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
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
Brown v. United States
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Filed 2/3/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Johnson v. United States
CA4
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Denied 3/9
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
Denied 3/9
Reed v. United States
CA11
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
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.
Filed 10/10/25, docketed 2/11/26
Alexis v. United States
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Filed 2/5/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Delgado v. United States
CA2
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Denied 3/9
Morgan v. United States
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Denied 3/2
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?
Filed 1/28
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Aramboles v. United States
CA2
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Denied 3/2
Heaggeans v. United States
CA4
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Filed 2/2/26
Listed for 3/20 Conference
Garner v. United States
CA5
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Denied 3/2
LaFave v. Fairfax County
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
Schoenthal v. Raoul
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.
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
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 3/6 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
Filed 5/20/25
Listed for 3/6 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.
Filed 8/6/25
Listed for 3/6 Conference
Vincent v. Bondi
CA10
Challenge to 922(g)(1) – federal felon-in-possession ban
Petition Denied 3/2
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
