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A4 U.S. NEWS
Monday 6 February 2023
Judge: Banning guns for marijuana users unconstitutional

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A well as the U.S. Attorney’s
federal judge in Oklahoma Office for the Western Dis-
has ruled that a federal law trict of Oklahoma, which
prohibiting people who use was prosecuting the case,
marijuana from owning fire- did not immediately return
arms is unconstitutional, the emails seeking comment
latest challenge to firearms Sunday.
regulations after the U.S. The ruling came a day af-
Supreme Court’s conserva- ter a three-judge panel of
tive majority set new stan- the 5th U.S. Circuit Court
dards for reviewing the na- of Appeals in New Orleans
tion’s gun laws. on Thursday ruled that the
Lawyers for Jared Mi- government can’t stop
chael Harrison had argued people who have domestic
that their client’s Second violence restraining orders
Amendment right to bear against them from owning
arms was being violated by guns. The panel referenced
a federal law that makes the Bruen decision in its rul-
it illegal for “unlawful us- ing. Two of the three judges
ers or addicts of controlled on the panel are Trump ap-
substances” to possess fire- pointees.
arms. Harrison had been The Justice Department has
charged after being ar- said it will seek further re-
rested by police in Lawton, A sales associate arranges guns on display at Burbank Ammo & Guns in Burbank, Calif., June 23, view of the appeals court’s
Oklahoma, in May 2022 fol- 2022. Associated Press decision.
lowing a traffic stop. During In September, a federal
a search of his car, police regulation, echoing what sons, namely, felons, the “But the mere use of mari- judge in Midland, Texas,
found a loaded revolver as the U.S. Supreme Court has mentally ill, and the intoxi- juana carries none of the ruled that a firearms law
well as marijuana. Harrison ruled last year in a case cated.” characteristics that the that bans those under felo-
told police he had been on known as New York State U.S. District Judge Patrick Nation’s history and tradi- ny indictment from buying
his way to work at a medi- Rifle & Pistol Association v. Wyrick in Oklahoma City tion of firearms regulation guns is unconstitutional. In
cal marijuana dispensary, Bruen. That case set new agreed with Harrison’s law- supports,” said Wyrick, who that case, U.S. District Judge
but that he did not have a standards for interpreting yers, ruling on Friday that was appointed by former David Counts, also a Trump
state-issued medical-mari- the Second Amendment. federal prosecutors’ argu- President Donald Trump. appointee, also echoed
juana card. Federal prosecutors had ments that Harrison’s status In his ruling, Wyrick high- the Supreme Court’s lan-
His lawyers had argued the argued that the portion of as a marijuana user “justi- lighted that under Okla- guage in the Bruen case,
portion of federal firearms the law focused on drug fies stripping him of his fun- homa law, marijuana can saying there was “little evi-
law focused on drug users users is “consistent with a damental right to possess a be bought legally at more dence” the ban related
or addicts was not consis- longstanding historical tra- firearm ... is not a constitu- than 2,000 store fronts in the to being under indictment
tent with the nation’s his- dition in America of disarm- tionally permissible means state. “aligns with this Nation’s his-
torical tradition of firearm ing presumptively risky per- of disarming Harrison.” Attorneys for Harrison, as torical tradition.”q

Mount Washington experiences

record-setting wind chill

chusetts took the unusual if I didn’t have to.” clone or low-pressure storm
step of keeping the South Paul Butler, 45, who has system. The Mount Wash-
Station transit hub open been homeless since he ington Observatory at the
overnight so homeless was evicted in December peak of the Northeast’s
people had a safe place 2021, took shelter in South highest mountain, famous
to sleep. Several cities in Station. for its extreme weather
the Northeast set or tied “This is the coldest I ever, conditions, also recorded
record low temperatures ever remember, and I an actual temperature of
for the date, while the high worked the door at a bunch minus 47 (minus 44 C), tying
winds brought down a tree of clubs for 15 years,” said an observatory record set
branch on a car in western the former Marine. in 1934 and a wind gust of
Spring Point Ledge Light is surrounded by arctic sea smoke
while emissions from the Wyman Power plant, background, are Massachusetts killing an in- The Arctic air reached the 127 mph (204 kmh).
blown horizontal by the fierce wind, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, in fant. region just as a rapid cy- Across the rest of the re-
South Portland, Maine. The morning temperature was about -10 “I can’t remember it be- clogenesis developed over gion, wind chills — the
degrees Fahrenheit. ing this cold, not since Labrador and Newfound- combined effect of wind
Associated Press 2015,” said Gin Koo, 36, land, churning up power- and cold air on exposed
By MARK PRATT including a record-setting wrapped up in three shirts ful winds, meteorologist skin — dropped to as low
Associated Press wind chill of minus 108 de- and a down jacket, as well Donald Dumont at the Na- as minus 45 to minus 50 de-
BOSTON (AP) — The Arc- grees Fahrenheit (minus 78 as a hat and a hood, as tional Weather Service in grees Fahrenheit (minus 43
tic air that descended on C) on the summit of Mount he walked his Boston ter- Gray, Maine, said Friday, to minus 45 C), the National
the Northeast on Saturday Washington in New Hamp- rier, Bee, in Boston on Sat- explaining the temperature Weather Service reported.
brought dangerously cold shire. urday morning. Even Bee, plunge. The current method to
sub-zero temperatures and Temperatures got so low wrapped in a doggie coat, A cyclogenesis refers to measure wind chill has
wind chills to the region, that authorities in Massa- shivered. “I wouldn’t go out an intensification of a cy- been used since 2001.q