The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a case that will determine whether the Second Amendment allows domestic abusers to own firearms.
to its current term, the Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take on a major Second Amendment case that will determine the constitutionality of a federal law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns.York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen,
which mandated that government firearm regulations must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” as Justicethat gun historians “are in demand like never before,” as lawyers struggle to assemble evidence to meetcomes out of the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in February overturned a 1996 law that
anyone with a restraining order for domestic violence from possessing a firearm. The court had upheld the same law less than three years prior, but President Donald Trump appointed an arch-conservative, Cory Wilson, to the bench in the interim. Asnoted Friday, Wilson said in a 2015 NRA questionnaire that he “opposed both background checks on private gun sales and state licensing requirements for potential gun owners.
The Biden administration quickly appealed the Fifth Circuit’s shocking decision, which legal commentator“can charitably be described as nuts, and accurately as pernicious.” “The very concept of domestic violence was alien to the Constitution’s framers because wives were completely subordinate to their husbands and wife beating was widely tolerated,” Greenhouse added.
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