And on June 30, the court took up a significant Second Amendment case, on Americans’ right to own AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits an individual who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a year or more from owning a gun. Hembree filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, contending that the felon in possession statute was unconstitutional as applied to him. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch specifically said that it did not address the felon in possession statute. Indeed, in addition to those three earlier petitions from the government on the felon in possession statute, the court this year has denied several petitions addressing the statute filed by defendants.