‘Habitual drunkards?’ Justice suggests Founding Fathers drank way too much to meet today’s gun ownership standards

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 marijuana, from owning firearms.

Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris pointed to founding-era restrictions on the rights of habitual...