Supreme Court Upholds Gun Ban
The high court is upholding a federal gun control law that prevents people who are under domestic violence-related restraining orders from possessing firearms. The case of United States v. Rahimi concerns a February 2023 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down a section of a 1994 law that prohibits a person who is subject to a domestic restraining order from possessing a gun.
The justices decided that the Second Amendment is not violated when an individual is disarmed, if a court rules that the person poses a credible threat to the physical safety of others. The ruling reversed a lower court decision that overturned a federal law. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court’s majority opinion, saying that since the United States was founded, the country’s firearms laws have created ways to stop individuals who threaten physical harm to others by misusing guns. The law at issue in this case, he says, fits “comfortably” within this tradition.
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