Trump admin asks SCOTUS to ban weed users from owing guns: Where do Oklahoma laws stand?

The Trump administration’s lawyers want the Supreme Court to make it official that regular weed smokers, as well as other drug users, should not be allowed to own firearms. 

An appeals court has said a federal law making it a crime for drug users to have a gun can’t be used against someone based solely on their past drug use. 

In Oklahoma, there are protections for both firearm owners and marijuana users set in place that could work against this legislation, should the Supreme Court make a decision. 

Here’s what to know in the state. 

Justice Department says gun violence goes down when sober 

The U.S. Justice Department is appealing four cases to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to focus on one involving a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan who was charged with unlawfully owning a Glock pistol because he regularly smoked marijuana. 

A New Orleans-based 5^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, in the case history and tradition support “some limits on a presently intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon,” the appeals court said, “they do not support disarming a sober person based solely on past substance usage.”