No Protection for Heroin Trafficker
By Stephen P. Halbrook
The Volokh Conspiracy
June 7, 2026
On June 2, the Fifth Circuit decided United States v. Squire, which posed “a novel question about whether the Second Amendment protects a convicted drug trafficker from being dispossessed of a firearm inside his home based on our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” As Senior Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote in the opinion, “our historical tradition supports disarming drug traffickers based on their dangerousness….”
“No Protection for Heroin Trafficker,” The Volokh Conspiracy, June 7, 2026.
