Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the ruling upholds a ‘commonsense prohibition’
Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, holds up a sign after U.S. justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to possess a gun, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on June 21.The U.S.
Roberts wrote in the ruling that since the nation’s founding, firearm laws have targeted people who threaten physical harm to others. “No one who has been abused should have to worry about their abuser getting a gun,” Biden said, touting his record on gun control. “As a result of ruling, survivors of domestic violence and their families will still be able to count on critical protections, just as they have for the past three decades.”
The case involved Zackey Rahimi, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to illegally possessing guns in violation of this law while subject to a restraining order. Police found a pistol and rifle while searching Rahimi’s residence in connection with at least five shootings, including using an assault-type rifle to fire at the home of a man to whom he had sold drugs.
Gun safety groups called Friday’s ruling a legal victory that will help counter firearms violence. But they condemned actions by the 5th Circuit, perhaps the most conservative federal appeals court, that let the case get this far.
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