United States v. Allam
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · No. 24-40065 · 140 F.4th 289
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
As-applied Second Amendment challenge rejected and the conviction under the school-zone statute affirmed.
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What the court held
A man who parked for weeks beside a Beaumont, Texas school with an AR-15-style rifle in his vehicle was convicted under the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act and argued the statute violated the Second Amendment as applied to him. The Fifth Circuit affirmed, holding that the historical analogues offered by the government - going-armed and affray laws, nineteenth-century restrictions on guns in schools, and polling-place buffer zones - together support disarming a visibly threatening individual as close to a school as he was. The court expressly declined to decide how far the statute's 1,000-foot buffer zone may reach in other circumstances.
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What this case is about
Second Amendment challenge to the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(2)(A)
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Key Dates
- 2025-06-16 — Decided
- 2025-03-06 — Argued
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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