As the Supreme Court expands gun rights, lower courts are striking down longstanding federal gun restrictions.
The Springfield Armory booth at the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center on April 15 in Indianapolis. The Supreme Court, in a sweeping ruling, expanded gun rights by finding the Constitution’s Second Amendment right to bear arms extended outside the home, triggering challenges to longstanding laws.
The justices are scheduled to discuss in private on Thursday whether to hear the case in what will be the first real test of how broadly the court’s conservativerequires judges to focus solely on whether a law comports with a historical understanding of the Second Amendment.concerned that lower courts had not cast a more skeptical eye on gun restrictions after the Supreme Court's previous major gun rights ruling in 2008.
During an incident in an Arlington, Texas, parking lot the previous year recounted by the federal government in court papers, Rahimi was accused of knocking the woman to the ground, dragging her to his car and pushing her inside, knocking her head on the dashboard in the process. He also allegedly fired a shot from his gun after realizing that a bystander was watching.
In reaching that conclusion the court said there was no historical tradition of people being disarmed after being convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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