Gun Ban in Domestic-Violence Case Gets Supreme Court Support (3)

Nov. 7, 2023, 8:32 PM UTC

The US Supreme Court signaled a reluctance to strike down the federal gun ban for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders.

Hearing arguments in Washington, several members of the court’s conservative majority suggested they didn’t read the Constitution’s Second Amendment as going so far as to protect the gun rights of people found to be dangerous.

“You don’t have any doubt that your client’s a dangerous person, do you?” Chief Justice John Roberts asked the lawyer for Zackey Rahimi, the Texas man challenging the law. Prosecutors say Rahimi has a long history of violent behavior, much of it after ...

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