Kionnataya Shevil Reed v. United States

This Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), brought about a sea change in Second Amendment jurisprudence. In Bruen’s wake, federal district courts and the courts of appeals have considered myriad constitutional challenges to the federal felon in possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which has produced wildly divergent results. The question presented is: Does the lifetime criminalization of any convicted felon’s possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment?