Court Upholds Federal Gun Ban for Misdemeanor Domestic Violence

A federal law prohibiting people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes from possessing firearms was upheld as constitutional by the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday.

The decision aligns the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth circuits, all of which have upheld the law against Second Amendment challenges in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s ruling in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, which established a two-step historical framework to analyze whether a firearm regulation violates the Second Amendment.

The Ninth Circuit rejected both facial and as-applied challenges ...