Founding Fathers Drank Way Too Much To Meet Modern Standard For Owning Guns, Justice Gorsuch Suggests

America’s founding fathers probably drank too much alcohol to keep their guns under modern standards, Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested Monday.

Several Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of the Trump administration’s defense of a statute that prohibits “unlawful users” or addicts of any controlled substance, including marijana, from owning firearms.

Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris pointed to founding-era restrictions on the rights of habitual drunkards as historical justification for disarming marijana users, but Gorsuch highlighted a key difference in how the government now defines “habitual.”

“The American Temperance Society, back in the day, said 8 shots of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard…To be a habitual drunkard, you had to do double that,” Gorsuch said during oral arguments for United States v. Hemani.

“John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast everyday,” he sad. “James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn’t much of a user of alcohol, he only drank 3-4 glasses of wine a night. Are they all habitual drunkards who would be properly disarmed for life?”

While the government contends defendant Ali Danial Hemani is a drug dealer with suspected ties to Iranian terrorists, he is only being charged for owning a handgun while admitting to consuming marijuana “a few times a week.” The case