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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case involving Second Amendment rights for someone accused of domestic abuse, appearing to side against a lower court’s ruling and in favor of the Biden administration.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, justices heard arguments in an appeal of a lower court’s ruling striking down a federal law that barred people under a domestic violence restraining order from being able to possess a firearm, “teeing up a possible narrow ruling over the law in question.”
The report added:
United States v. Rahimi is the high court’s first major Second Amendment case since Justice Clarence Thomas and the Republican-appointed majority ruled 6-3 that firearms regulations must be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition.” That case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, featured a successful challenge to the Empire State’s handgun licensing regime and established a new legal framework for evaluating gun laws.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sided with Texas resident Zackey…
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